Examples of area of plane shapes

Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional shape. The area can be understood as the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat. The area of a shape can be measured by comparing the shape to squares of a fixed size 1 m^2 or 1 cm^2 etc. Every unit of length has a corresponding unit of area. Areas can be measured in square metres (m^2), square centimetres (cm^2), square millimetres (mm^2), square kilometres (km^2), square feet (ft^2), square yards (yd^2), square miles (mi^2), and so forth.

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  • Diamond area from diagonals
    kosostvorec In the diamond ABCD is AB = 4 dm and the length of the diagonal is 6.4 dm long. What is the area of the diamond?
  • The circumference
    rectangle The circumference and width of the rectangle are in a ratio of 5: 1. its area is 216cm2. What is its length?
  • The tent
    stan Calculate how much cover (without a floor) is used to make a tent that has the shape of a regular square pyramid. The edge of the base is 3 m long and the height of the tent is 2 m.
  • Quadrilateral pyramid
    jehlan_4b_obdelnik Calculate the surface of a quadrilateral pyramid, which has a rectangular base with dimensions a = 8 cm, b = 6 cm and height H = 10 cm.
  • Side lengths
    triangles_1 In the triangle ABC, the height to the side a is 6cm. The height to side b is equal to 9 cm. Side "a" is 4 cm longer than side "b". Calculate the side lengths a, b.
  • Triangular prism
    hranol3b_1 Calculate the surface of a regular triangular prism, the edges of the base are 6 cm long and the height of the prism is 15 cm.
  • Two sides paint
    painter The door has the shape of a rectangle with dimensions of 260cm and 170cm. How many cans of paint will be needed to paint this door if one can of paint cover 2m2 of the area? We paint the doors on both sides.
  • Cutting the prism
    cube333 A prism with a square base with a content of 1 cm2 and a height of 3 cm was cut from a cube with an edge length of 3 cm. What is the surface of the body formed from the cube after cutting the prism?
  • Largest squares
    metals How many of the largest square sheets did the plumber cut the honeycomb from 16 dm and 96 dm?
  • The right triangle
    rt_tr540 The right triangle ABC has a leg a = 36 cm and an area S = 540 cm2. Calculate the length of the leg b and the median t2 to side b.
  • The hollow cylinder
    duty_valec The hollow cylinder has a height of 70 cm, an outer diameter of 180 cm and an inner diameter of 120 cm. What is the surface of the body, including the area inside the cavity?
  • Flakes
    kvietok_MO A circle was described on the square, and a semicircle above each side of the square was described. This created 4 "flakes". Which is bigger: the content of the central square or the content of four chips?
  • The bases
    rr_lichobeznik The bases of the isosceles trapezoid ABCD have lengths of 10 cm and 6 cm. Its arms form an angle α = 50˚ with a longer base. Calculate the circumference and content of the ABCD trapezoid.
  • Garden exchange
    land The garden has the shape of a rectangular trapezoid, the bases of which have dimensions of 60 m and 30 m and a vertical arm of 40 m. The owner exchanged this garden for a parallelogram, the area of which is 7/9 of the area of a trapezoidal garden. What is
  • Carpet
    koberec How many crowns CZK do we pay for a carpet for a bedroom, when 1m of square carpet costs 350 CZK and the bedroom has dimensions of 4m and 6m? How many crowns do we pay for a strip around the carpet, when 1m of the strip costs 15 CZK?
  • Wallpaper
    net of cube 3750 cm square of wallpaper is needed to glue a cube-shaped box. Can Dad cut out the whole necessary piece of wallpaper as a whole if he has a roll of wallpaper 50 cm wide?
  • Rectangular land
    domcek On a rectangular land with dimensions of 35 m and 18.5 m is a house with a square floor plan with a side of 14 m. What % of the land is not occupied?
  • Tiles
    strecha The pupils of the building school have to calculate how many roof tiles they will need to cover the roof of the house in the shape of two rectangles measuring 10 x 7.2 m. One roof tile covers a rectangular area of 22 cmx32 cm. How many tiles will they nee
  • Height to the base
    triangle The triangle area is 35 cm ^ 2. The size of the base is 10 cm. Find the length of height to the base.
  • An equilateral
    rs_triangle2 An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a square of side 1 unit long so that it has one common vertex with the square. What is the area of the inscribed triangle?

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