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4.04 Area

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Areas of squares and rectangles
1

Find the area of the following rectangles:

a
b
c
2

Find the area of the following squares:

a
b
3

Find the area, A, of a rectangle when l is 14 \text{ cm} and w is 5 \text{ cm} using the formula A = l \times w.

4

Find the area of a rectangle whose length is 12 \text{ cm} and width is 5 \text{ cm}.

5

Find the area of a square whose side is 5 \text{ cm}.

6

Find the area of a square whose perimeter is 8\text{ cm}.

7

The rectangle shown has side lengths given in millimetres.

a

State the dimensions of the rectangle in centimetres:

i

Length

ii

Width

b

Hence, find the area of the rectangle in square centimetres.

8

Calculate the area of the rectangle shown in square metres:

9

A rectangle measures 390 \text{ cm} wide by 12.5 \text{ m} long. Calculate the area of the rectangle in square metres.

10

A rectangle has side lengths of 700 \text{ m} and 2900 \text{ m}. Calculate the area of the rectangle in square kilometres.

Area of triangles
11

For each of the following figures:

i

Find the area of the entire rectangle.

ii

Find the area of the shaded triangle.

a
b
c
d
12

Find the area of the following triangles:

a
b
c
d
e
13

Calculate the area of the triangle shown in square centimetres.

14

Find the area of the following triangles:

a

A triangle whose base, b, is 3 \text{ m} and height, h, is 2 \text{ m}.

b

A triangle whose base b is 6\text{ m} and height h is 12\text{ m}.

Applications
15

A kitchen floor is tiled with the tiles shown in the picture. If 30 tiles are needed to tile the floor, find the total area of the floor.

16

A window containing a rectangular piece of glass is broken and needs replacing. Emma is told that it will cost 5 cents per square metre to replace. She measures the window to have a width of 27 \text{ cm} and a height of 15 \text{ cm} to get an idea of the price. When the job is completed, the repairman bills Emma for \$35.65, and explains that there is more glass that cannot be seen since some of the glass sits within the frame:

a

How much did Emma expect the glass replacement to cost?

b

What was the area of the piece of glass that was actually replaced?

c

If the actual glass extends 2 \text{ cm} on either end beyond the original width Emma measured, calculate the actual height of the window.

17

A rectangular driveway is to be resurfaced with gravel. A 3 cubic metre load of gravel will cover 12 square metres of driveway, and costs \$6.

A scale drawing of the rectangular driveway is given. The actual length of the longest side of the driveway is 16 metres.

a

Determine the actual width of the driveway.

b

How many 3 cubic metre loads of gravel will be required to resurface the entire driveway?

c

Calculate the total cost of the gravel.

18

A crop farmer trades 5 identical pieces of machinery, which have a market value of \$880\,000 each, for a square piece of land as shown in the scale drawing. The scale of the drawing is 1:3000.

a

Find the actual area of the square piece of land, in square metres.

b

Determine the total market value of the 5 pieces of machinery.

c

According to this exchange, find the value of the land per square metre, to the nearest dollar.

19

John is tiling a room floor that has a total area of 9\text{ m}^2. The tiles he is using are squares, measuring 25\text{ cm} by 25\text{ cm}.

a

Calculate the area of a single tile in \text{m}^2.

b

Calculate the number of tiles John will require to cover the entire floor area.

20

A rectangular garden bed measures 430\text{ cm} by 250\text{ cm}. A bag of fertiliser covers an area of 2 \text{ m}^2.

a

Calculate the number of whole bags of fertiliser needed to cover the total area of the garden bed.

b

Calculate the area in \text{m}^2 that the left-over fertiliser will be able to cover.

21

A national park has a rectangular flower bed that is 11\text{ m} long and 12 \text{ m} wide. Fertiliser costs \$4.33 per square metre.

a

Calculate the area of the flower bed.

b

Hence, calculate the cost of fertilising the flower bed.

22

A farmer wants to cover a rectangular section of roofing that measures 5\frac{1}{2} \text{ m} by 4\frac{1}{2} \text{ m} with solar panels. Having received quotes from various solar panel suppliers, she estimates that the panels will cost \$300 per square metre to install.

Calculate the estimated cost of covering the section of roofing with solar panels.

23

Luke made a square mosaic that has side lengths of 3 metres. Luke decided to add a border to his mosaic, and now it has side lengths of 3.2 metres.

By how much has the area of the mosaic increased?

24

A pizza maker is experimenting with different shaped pizza bases, but wants the perimeter of the base to stay at 78\text{ cm}.

a

If the rectangular pizza base is 30 \text { cm} long, what must be the width of the base?

b

What would be the area of this base?

c

If he changes the base so that one side measures 6 \text { cm} but the perimeter stays the same, how much less space will the base have for toppings?

25

The faces on a 4 sided die are all triangular. Each face has a base length of 13 \text{ mm} and a perpendicular height of 20 \text{ mm}. Find the area of one face of the die.

26

Sharon has purchased a rectangular piece of fabric measuring 12 \text{ m} in length and 7 \text{ m} in width. What is the area of the largest triangular piece she can cut out from it?

27

At the entrance of the Louvre museum is a glass structure in the shape of a square base pyramid.

A replica of this pyramid is to be built such that each triangular face of the pyramid measures 7.5 metres at the base, and has a perpendicular height of 10 metres.

The faces will be made up of identical triangular glass tiles tessellated to fit exactly on each face.

a

Find the total area that needs to be covered with the triangular glass tiles.

b

How many glass tiles will be needed in total if each triangular tile measures 15 \text{ cm} across the base and has a perpendicular height of 20 \text{ cm}?

28

A sand pit set in the corner of a property has dimensions as shown below.

a

Calculate the area of the sandpit in square metres.

b

A 20 \text{ kg} bag of play sand costs \$7.80, and covers an area of 0.5\text{ m}^2 to an appropriate depth.

How much will it cost to buy enough bags of sand to fill this sand pit?

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