SSAT Elementary Level Quantitative › Rectangles
What is the area of the above rectangle?
To find the area of the rectangle, multiply the longer side (8) and shorter side (3) together.
What is the area of the rectangle?
We can find the area by counting the squares within the rectangle. There are squares.
We can also multiply the length and the width to find the area.
*Area is the number of square units inside a shape, which is why area is always written with square units.
What is the length of a rectangular room with a perimeter of and a width of
We have the perimeter and the width, so we can plug those values into our equation and solve for our unknown.
Subtract from both sides
Divide by both sides
Angela has a garden that she wants to put a fence around. How much fencing will she need if her garden is by
The fence is going around the garden, so this is a perimeter problem.
How many squares make up the rectangle?
When we count the squares, there are squares that make up the rectangle.
What is the area of the rectangle?
We can find the area by counting the squares within the rectangle. There are squares.
We can also multiply the length and the width to find the area.
*Area is the number of square units inside a shape, which is why area is always written with square units.
What is the area of the rectangle?
We can find the area by counting the squares within the rectangle. There are squares.
We can also multiply the length and the width to find the area.
*Area is the number of square units inside a shape, which is why area is always written with square units.
The rectangle is made up of by
squares. Use this information to help you solve the problem.
If each of the small boxes in the figure below measures 1 in by 1 in, what is the area of the entire shape?
We can count the number of squares within the shape to find the area.
There are squares within the shape, which means the area is
*Area is the number of square units inside a shape, which is why area is always written with square units.
What is the area of the rectangle?
The formula to find area is . We are given the length and the width from the problem, so we can plug those values into our equation and solve.
*Area is the number of square units inside a shape, which is why area is always written with square units.
What is the area of the rectangle?
We can find the area by counting the squares within the rectangle. There are squares.
We can also multiply the length and the width to find the area.
*Area is the number of square units inside a shape, which is why area is always written with square units.