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Parallelogram Practice
1A.
Eduardo sent his mother a copy of a photo someone took at his football game. Use a ruler to
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measure the photo to the nearest
inch. What is the approximate area of Eduardo’s photo?
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1B.
Grace is making a display board for the school talent show. The display board is a rectangle that
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measures 4 ft by 8
ft. She needs to cover the entire display board with gold paper. How
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many square feet of gold paper does she need?
A.
B.
1 2
ft
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3
39 ft2
8
13
C.
32 ft2
D.
26
1 2
ft
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2A.
The area of a rectangular park is 4500 m2. If the length of the park is 90 m, what is its width?
2B.
Look at the figure to the right. If the length of the base is 8.6 mm and the area is 58.48 mm 2,
what is the measure of x?
x
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3A.
Miss Ryder asked four students to write the equation that could find the area of 5 parallelograms
like the one shown below.
8 feet
9.2 feet
6.5 feet
Hailey said:
A = (6.5)(8)(9.2)(5)
Kendall said:
A = (8)(5)(6.5)
Lonice said:
A = (9.2)(6.5)(5)
Oliver said:
A = (8)(6.5)
Which student(s) wrote a correct equation?
3B.
4A.
A.
Lonice only
C.
Kendall only
B.
Oliver and Hailey only
D.
None of the students wrote a correct
equation.
Jordan has a window in the shape of a parallelogram with an area of 559 cm 2.
Its height measures 26 cm. What is the length of its base?
The U-Read-It Sign Company has a contract with the City to make “No Parking” signs. Each
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5
inches. The City needs to order 100 signs. How many square inches of aluminum will the U-ReadIt Sign Company use for each sign?
rectangular sign is cut from a sheet of aluminum and has a length of 24 inches and a width of 18
4B.
Stacy designs advertisement layouts for the pages of Teen Scene magazine. Each rectangular
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page of the magazine measures 9
inches by 11 inches. How many square inches of space are
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available on each page of the magazine for advertising?
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5A.
The quilt pattern shown is the Lone Star pattern. It is made up
of 32 congruent parallelograms. When Polly’s mom uses this
pattern, she makes each parallelogram with a height of 2 cm and
a length of 4 cm. How many square centimeters of fabric does
one complete pattern require?
5B.
Johnny makes stained-glass windows from small parallelograms of glass in many different colors.
All the parallelograms are congruent to the one shown below.
Johnny uses 72 of these parallelograms to make a window for his friend. How many square
centimeters of glass are used to make his friend’s window?
A.
B.
C.
D.
1,972.8 sq cm
40 sq cm
32.4 sq cm
2,880 sq cm
Independent Practice:
6.
Sara is sewing beach towels together to make a beach blanket. Each beach towel is congruent to
the one shown below.
3
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feet
2
4 feet
If Sara uses 9 beach towels to make her beach blanket, how many square feet will the beach
blanket cover?
A.
B.
126 ft2
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67 ft 2
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C.
135 ft2
D.
108 ft2
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7.
International soccer fields are rectangular and measure 100 meters by 73 meters. A soccer field
needs to be recovered with sod. Each roll of sod covers 50 square meters. How many rolls of sod
do the groundskeepers need for the field?
8.
Fernando has a rectangular flower garden that is 9 m long and 4 m wide. One bag of fertilizer can
cover 12 square meters. How many bags of fertilizer will he need for the entire garden?
9.
Richard’s “man cave” is a rectangular room which measures 15 feet by 12 feet. He wants to install
new carpeting in the entire room. How much will Richard spend on carpeting if the new carpet he
wants costs $5 per square foot?
10.
The area of a square is 25 square inches. What is the measure of one side of the square?
A. 3 inches
B. 4 inches
C. 6 inches
D. 5 inches
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