Finding Area of Square Unit

What is the area of the rectangle?

• 15 sq cm

• 15 cm

• 2 

• 16 cm

What is the area of this rectangle?

• 40 square centimeters

• 28 centimeters

• 16 square centimeters

• 100 square centimeters

Ms. Tomasina wants to cover her bulletin board with plastic. The bulletin board is pictured above on a grid.

Which is the best way to find the area of the bulletin board? 

• Count the number of units around the bulletin board. 

• Count the total number of squares on the bulletin board. 

• Count the units along the length of the bulletin board and double that number. 

• Count the number of squares along the width of the bulletin board and multiply that number times itself. 

What is the area of a square with a length of 4 cm?

• 16 cm

• 16 square cm

• 8 cm

• 8 square cm 

What is the area of the rectangle?

• 48 sq feet

• 48 sq inches

• 28sq feet

• 28 feet

What is the area of the shaded figure? 

• 4 square units 

• 6 square units 

• 10 square units 

• 2 square units 

A unit for measuring area.

• area

• square unit

• unit square

What does area mean?

• the distance around a shape

• half the distance around a shape

• the amount of space outside a shape

• the amount of space inside a shape

When calculating the area of a square, you only need to know the measurement of 1 side because they are all the same.

• True

• False

Find the area of this square

• 10

• 10 square units

• 40 units

• 100 square units