1. The perimeter of a parallelogram playground is 46 m. If the length of the park is 7
m, what is the width of the park?
2. Herbert is decorating the bulletin board in the school’s lobby. The bulletin board
is a 7 ft by 11 ft rectangle. He decides to add a black border around the entire
bulletin board. What is the length of border that he needs?
3. Charles has a parallelogram flower garden that is 5 yd long and 12 yd wide. One
bag of fertilizer can cover 6 yd2. How many bags will he need to buy to cover the
entire garden?
4. Before soccer practice, Laura warms up by jogging around the soccer field that is
80 yards by 120 yards. How many yards does she jog if she goes around the field
two times?
5. George and Jane are in charge of making a banner for the basketball game this
Saturday. How much poster paper will they need for a trapezoid shaped banner
with a height of 3 feet and a base of 9 feet and 12 feet?
6. Betty wants to install new carpet in her living room. The room length is 15 ft and
the width is 15 ft. If the cost of the carpet is $8 per square foot, what will be the
total cost to carpet Betty’s living room?
7. Before she goes camping, La Verne has to buy a tent pole to replace the one she
lost on her last outing. If the area of the front of the tent is 22 square feet and
the base of the tent is 8 ft, how tall must the pole be?
8. Sue bought a triangular shaped piece of wood with a height is 6 inches and a
base of 2 inches. She plans to cover the front with a piece of fabric, how much
fabric will she need?
9. Abby is going to ride her bike to her friend’s house that is 2.3 miles away. Then
she is going to ride her bike another 3.4 miles to Starbucks before heading home,
which is another 3.8 miles. She noticed on the map that her route is in the shape
of a triangle. How far will Abby ride her bike altogether?
10. Edward Box Makers produces carton boxes each has a length of 40 centimeters, a
width of 25 centimeters and a height of 19 centimeters. Find the minimum area of
paper required to wrap each box. (4470 cm3)
Also, Definition of polygon
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volume of the Thin Mints box 74.06 in3
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volume of the shipping box 792 in3
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10.69403 round down to 10 Thin Mint boxes
volume of the inside of the truck is 1,281,511 . volume of the storage boxe is 9,072
141 boxes can fit inside of the truck, so the moving company will need two trucks in
order to move 200 boxes