Solving for the Perimeter

If you are finding the distance around an object, what are you solving for?  

• Area

• Volume

• Plus and Minus

• Perimeter

What is the perimeter of this rectangle?  
Length:  8 cm
Width:  4 cm

• 32 cm

• 24 square centimeters

• 24 cm

• 84 cm 

If the perimeter of a SQUARE is 16, what is the side length?  

• 8 cm

• 4 cm

• 16 cm

• cannot be solved

If the perimeter of a rectangle is 12 inches, and the length is 4 inches, what must the width be?  

• 4 inches

• cannot solve

• 2 inches

• 48 inches

Farmer Bob's son built a track to walk his pet pig.  The track goes around the pig pen.  The pig pen is 15 feet long and 21 feet wide.  If the pig walks all the way around the track, how many feet did he walk?

• 72 feet

• 36 feet

• 36 square feet

• 8 ft

• 6 ft

• 9 ft

• 8 ft

• 10 cc.

• 16 cm.

• 23 cm

• 9 cm.

What is the perimeter of the fence?
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• 25

• 30

• 35

• 40

Farmer Bob needs to build a fence for his chickens.  The area he wants to build a fence around is 40 feet long and 20 feet wide.  How many feet of fence does he need to buy?

• 800 feet

• 120 feet

• 60 feet

This figure shows Luna's dining room. What expression could be used to find the total length, in feet, of the baseboard needed. (Write your answer in the spaces provided).