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KS2.M-Y5M2 Perimeter, Area and Volume

Calculators not allowed · about 60 minutes
Total Marks
Name: _______________________________    Date: ____ / ____ / ______
Answer ALL questions. Show all your working.
1
A rectangle has length 8 m and width 3 m. Work out its area.
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2
A garden bed is a rectangle 250 cm long and 120 cm wide. What is the area in square centimetres?
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3
Write down the perimeter of a rectangle with sides 7 cm and 5 cm.
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4
A classroom carpet is made from two rectangles joined along their short side. One rectangle is 4 m by 3 m, the other is 4 m by 2 m. Calculate the total area of the carpet.
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5
A rectangular water tray holds 6 layers of cubes. Each layer is 5 cubes long and 3 cubes wide. How many cubes fit in the tray altogether?
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6
A rectangle has area 48 cm2 and one side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the other side.
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7
A border around a square flower bed is 1 m wide. The outside edge of the border makes a larger square 8 m by 8 m. What is the area of the flower bed (the inner square)?
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8
Estimate the area of this irregular shape by counting full 1 cm by 1 cm squares and sensible halves.
The shape covers 7 full squares and 5 half squares.
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9
A storage box is 40 cm by 30 cm by 20 cm. A small cube has side 10 cm. What is the largest number of small cubes that can fit into the box without breaking them?
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10
A rectangle has perimeter 30 m. One side is 8 m. Work out the length of the opposite side.
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11
Sana builds a tower with cubes. The base layer is 6 cubes by 2 cubes. She stacks 4 identical layers. How many cubes are in the tower? Show your working.
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12
A playground has a rectangular patch of sand 9 m by 4 m. A square seesaw area of 2 m by 2 m is inside the sand. What is the area of sand not covered by the seesaw?
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13
Here is a rectangle 12 cm by 5 cm. A 4 cm by 2 cm rectangle is cut out from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
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14
Explain why two rectangles with the same area can have different perimeters. Give a short example using whole-number sides.
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15
A fish tank is 60 cm long and 25 cm wide. The base is filled with a layer of stones 5 cm deep made from small cubes of size 5 cm. How many small cubes are needed to make the layer?
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16
A rectangle has length 9 m and area 63 m2. A smaller similar rectangle has length 3 m. What is the area of the smaller rectangle?
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17
A model made from identical small cubes has three layers. The bottom layer is 4 by 3 cubes, the middle is 3 by 3, the top is 2 by 3. How many cubes are in the model? Explain your method.
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18
Estimate the area of a pond drawn on a 1 cm grid where about 13 full squares and 6 quarters are covered. Give your estimate in square centimetres.
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