Length + rectangle - math problems

  1. Wire fence
    plot_zed The wire fence around the garden is 160 m long. One side of the garden is three times longer than the other. How many meters do the individual sides of the garden measure?
  2. A map
    land_1 A map with a scale of 1: 5,000 shows a rectangular field with an area of 18 ha. The length of the field is three times its width. The area of the field on the map is 72 cm square. What is the actual length and width of the field?
  3. The quadrilateral pyramid
    jehlan_4b_obdelnik The quadrilateral pyramid has a rectangular base of 24 cm x 3.2dm and a body height of 0.4m. Calculate its volume and surface area.
  4. The perimeter of the rectangle
    rectangle The length, l, of a rectangle is 4 inches greater than its width, w. The perimeter of the rectangle is at least 30 inches. What inequality shows the range of possible widths of the rectangle?
  5. Tablecloths
    obrus The restaurant has sixty-two square tablecloths with a side length of 150 cm and 36 rectangular tablecloths with dimensions of 140 cm and 160 cm. A) How many meters of hemming ribbon will be needed if we add 50 cm to each tablecloth? B) The ribbon sale
  6. Picture frames
    picture_frame Destiny has to make 24 picture frames. Each frame uses 16 3/8 wood trim. 2/3 were completed on the first day. How many inches of wood trim is needed to complete the remaining frames on the second day?
  7. Rectangular garden
    rectangle_1 The perimeter of Peter's rectangular garden is 98 meters. The width of the garden is 60% shorter than its length. Find the dimensions of the rectangular garden in meters. Find the garden area in square meters.
  8. Rectangle field
    land The field has a shape of a rectangle having a length of 119 m and a width of 19 m. , How many meters have to shorten its length and increase its width to maintain its area and circumference increased by 24 m?
  9. Football field
    playground The soccer field may have a width of 45 meters. This is 45 meters less than the length of the course. What can be the length of the football field?
  10. Let x
    rectangle Let x represent one quantity. State what that quantity represents. Express the second quantity in terms of x. The length of the rectangle is 4 inches less than 8 times the width.
  11. The perimeter 3
    rectangles The perimeter of a rectangle is 35 cm. The ratio of the length to its width is 3:2. Calculate the dimensions of the rectangle
  12. Photo frame
    photo A square shape photo with a side length of 20 cm is framed by a 4 cm wide bar. Find the external frame size of this photo (the frame is from all sides)
  13. Cuboidal room
    Cuboid_simple_1 Length of cuboidal room is 2m breadth of cuboidal room is 3m and height is 6m find the length of the longest rod that can be fitted in the room
  14. Flooring a room
    tiles_10 Find the cost of flooring a room 6.5 m by 5 m with square tiles of sides 25 cm at the rate of rupees 9.40 per tile.
  15. Paper box
    kvader11_3 Calculate whether 11 dm² of paper is sufficient for gluing a box without a lid with bottom dimensions of 2 dm and 15 cm and 12 cm high. Write result as: 0 = No, 1 = Yes
  16. Water level
    bazen_11 How high is the water in the swimming pool with dimensions of 37m in length and 15m in width, if an inlet valve is opened for 10 hours flowing 12 liters of water per second?
  17. Rectangles
    rectangles2_3 How many different rectangles with sides integers (in mm) have a circumference exactly 1000 cm?
  18. Sandbox
    sand_2 Sandbox has area of 32 sq ft and length of 4 1/2 ft. What is width of sandbox.
  19. Sand path
    sand_1 How many m3 of sand is needed to fill the 1.5m wide path around a rectangular flowerbed of 8m and 14m if the sand layer is 6cm high?
  20. Area of garden
    garden_20 If the width of the rectangular garden is decreased by 2 meters and its length is increased by 5 meters, the area of the rectangle will be 0.2 ares larger. If the width and the length of the garden will increase by 3 meters, its original size will increa

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