Calculating Area and Perimeter

The distance around an object is called the 

• area

• perimeter

The perimeter of a rectangle is 46 cm. Its width is 5 centimeters. Find the length

• 10 cm

• 18 cm

• 4.6 cm

• 36 cm

What is the difference between area and perimeter?

• Area measures the amount of square units inside and perimeter does too. 

• Area measures the outside distance of an object and perimeter measures space inside. 

• Area measures space inside figure and perimeter measures outside distance of figure.

• Area and perimeter both measure the distance outside of a figure.

What is the area of the shaded region?

• 14 m²

• 120 m²

• 106 m²

• 134 m²

What is the area of the shaded region?

• 20 sq cm

• 4 sq cm

• 30 sq cm

• 24 sq cm

Find the perimeter of the compound shape

• 62cm

• 74cm

• 44cm

• 68cm

Do you add or multiply when finding the area of an object?

• multiply

• add

Maura drew a square. Each side measures 6 cm. What is the area of the square?

• 24 sq cm

• 36 sq cm

• 42 sq cm

• 48 sq cm

Find the area of a regular hexagon with a side length of 9 cm.

• 210.4 cm²

• 230.1 cm²

• 237.0 cm²

• 260 cm²

In the formula for calculating the area of a regular polygon, p = permeter, s = length of one side, and n = number of sides.

• true

• false