018 Area and Volume
018 Area and Volume
018 Area and Volume
1. Area
Area is the amount of space that is enclosed within a 2-D shape. There are many
units of area, some common metric ones are : mm 2, cm2, km2
You may have used other imperial units such as square inches, square feet, square
yards and square miles. We’ll concentrate on the metric units in this worksheet.
Area of a rectangle :
13cm
5cm
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Area = 13 x 5 = 65cm2
Area of a triangle
This is calculated by multiplying half of the length of the base by the height.
Area = ½ x 6 x 7
= 3 x 7
7cm = 21cm2
height
5cm 4cm
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Some questions will not just involve one shape but maybe 2 or 3, like this :
6cm
3cm
7cm
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14cm
We first have to split the large “L” shaped figure into two separate rectangles and
work out the sides that we need to calculate the area like this :
6cm
3cm
7cm
14 6 = 8cm 7 3 = 4cm
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14cm
Now we have two rectangles we can work out the area of each rectangle and add
the two areas together to get the area of the L-shape like this :
Area = 6 x 7 = 42cm2
Area = 8 x 4 = 32cm2
This is the amount of space enclosed within a 3-D object. Common units are cm 3, m3
and km3. Note also that cm3 can also be described as litres.
5cm
12cm
10cm
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Exercise 7.1
4cm
4m
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4m
3m
7m
3. A triangular road sign has a base dimension of 60cm and a height of 60cm.
Work out its area in
4. A small aircraft has passenger windows that are squares with sides of 40cm.
(b) If there are 50 windows, find the total area of glass in square metres.
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2m
5. Fabien wants to fill this cake tin with mixture. How does he calculate the
correct volume of the cake mixture?
6cm
20cm
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20cm
(a) 20 + 20 + 6 (b) 20 + 20 + 6 x 2
(c) 20 x 2 x 6 (d) 20 x 20 x 6
6. The units for measuring the volume of the cake mixture in Q5 are :
7. A swimming pool has a constant depth of 2m. It is 25m long and 10m wide.
Calculate the volume of water required to completely fill it.
(c) What is the total area of the four walls and the ceiling together?
(d) If one tin of paint will cover 50m 2, then how many tins are needed to
paint the 4 walls and ceiling?
9. A notice board has to have an area of 9 square metres. The board measures
1.5m from top to bottom as shown. What is the length of the board?
Length = ???
7m
PATIO
8m
LAWN 6m
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10m
(i) Which of these is the correct way to find the area of the lawn?