Area & Perimeter (AQA GCSE Maths)

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The diagram shows the plan of a small field.

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Kevin is going to keep some pigs in the field.
Each pig needs an area of 36 square metres.

Work out the greatest number of pigs Kevin can keep in the field.

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Here is a trapezium drawn on a centimetre grid.

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On the grid, draw a triangle equal in area to this trapezium.

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The diagram shows a trapezium A B C D and two identical semicircles.

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The centre of each semicircle is on D C.

Work out the area of the shaded region.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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The diagram shows a wall in the shape of a trapezium.

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Karen is going to cover this part of the wall with tiles.
Each tile is rectangular, 15 cm by 7.5 cm.

Tiles are sold in packs.
There are 9 tiles in each pack.

Karen divides the area of this wall by the area of a tile to work out an estimate for the number of tiles she needs to buy.

Use Karen's method to work out the estimate for the number of packs of tiles she needs to buy.

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Karen is advised to buy 10% more tiles than she estimated.
Buying 10% more tiles will affect the number of the tiles Karen needs to buy.

She assumes she will need to buy 10% more packs of tiles.

Is Karen's assumption correct?
You must show your working.

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Here is a diagram showing a rectangle, A B C D, and a circle.

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B C is a diameter of the circle.

Calculate the percentage of the area of the rectangle that is shaded.
Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

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The diagram shows a path around a pond.

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The pond is in the shape of a rectangle with length 7m and width 4m.
The path is 3m wide.

Ali is going to cover the path with gravel.
One bag of gravel will cover 10 m2 of the path.

How many bags of gravel does Ali need to buy?
You must show your working.

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Mr Weaver's garden is in the shape of a rectangle.

In the garden

  there is a patio in the shape of a rectangle
and two ponds in the shape of circles with diameter 3.8 m.

The rest of the garden is grass.

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Mr Weaver is going to spread fertiliser over all the grass.
One box of fertiliser will cover 25 m2 of grass.

How many boxes of fertiliser does Mr Weaver need?
You must show your working.

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The diagram shows the plan of a playground.

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Bill is going to cover the playground with tarmac.
It costs £2.56 to cover each square metre with tarmac.

Work out the total cost of the tarmac Bill needs.

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The diagram shows the plan of a floor.

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Angie is going to varnish the floor.

She needs 1 litre of varnish for 5m2 of floor.
There are 2.5 litres of varnish in each tin of varnish.

Angie has 3 tins of varnish.

Does she have enough varnish for all the floor?
You must show all your working.

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This rectangular frame is made from 5 straight pieces of metal.

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The weight of the metal is 1.5 kg per metre.

Work out the total weight of the metal in the frame.

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A B D is a right angled triangle.

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All measurements are given in centimetres.
C is the point on B D such that C D space equals space fraction numerator square root of 3 over denominator 3 end fraction

A D space equals space B D space equals space fraction numerator square root of 2 over denominator 2 end fraction

Work out the exact area, in cm2, of the shaded region.

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Here are two rectangles.

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Q R space equals space 10 cm
B C space equals space P Q

The perimeter of A B C D is 26 cm.
The area of P Q R S is 45 cm2.

Find the length of A B.

...................................... cm

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The shorter side of a parallelogram has length 6.5 cm

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The length of the shorter side is 1 over 9 of the perimeter.

Work out the length of the longer side.

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The diagram shows a wall.

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The area of the wall is 39.2 m2

Work out the length of the wall.

..........................m

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The shaded shape is made using three identical right-angled triangles and a square.

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Work out the perimeter of the shaded shape.

...................................................... cm

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Here is a hexagon A B C D E F.

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C D is parallel to A F.
Work out the area of hexagon A B C D E F.

....................................... cm squared

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The diagram shows a triangle.

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In the diagram, all the measurements are in metres.

The perimeter of the triangle is 56 m.
The area of the triangle is A m2.

Work out the value of A.

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The diagram shows 3 identical circles inside a rectangle.
Each circle touches the other two circles and the sides of the rectangle, as shown in the diagram.

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The radius of each circle is 24 mm.

Work out the area of the rectangle.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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Here is a right-angled triangle.

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Four of these triangles are joined to enclose the square A B C D as shown below.

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Show that the area of the square  A B C D space is space x squared space plus space y squared.

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Here is a diagram of Jim's garden.

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Jim wants to cover his garden with grass seed to make a lawn.

Grass seed is sold in bags.
There is enough grass seed in each bag to cover 20 m2 of garden.

Each bag of grass seed costs £4.99

Work out the least cost of putting grass seed on Jim's garden.

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P Q R and P T S are straight lines.
Angle P T Q = Angle P S R space equals space 90 degree

Q T space equals space 4 cm
R S space equals space 12 cm
T S space equals space 10 cm

Work out the area of the trapezium Q R S T.

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Work out the length of P T.

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A B C is an isosceles triangle.

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Work out the area of the triangle.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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Here is a parallelogram.

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D C space equals space 7 space cm space
C B space equals space 5 space cm
Angle A B C is 40 degree

Work out the area of the parallelogram.
Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

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The diagram shows a triangle D E F inside a rectangle A B C D.
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Show that the area of triangle D E F is 8 cm2.
You must show all your working.

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A D B and A E C are straight lines.
D E is parallel to B C.

Angle A B C space equals space 90 degree
A C space equals space 10 space cm. space
B C space equals space 6 space cm.

D is the midpoint of A B.

Work out the area of trapezium B C E D.

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The perimeter of a right-angled triangle is 72 cm.
The lengths of its sides are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5.

Work out the area of the triangle.

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The diagram shows a square with perimeter 16 cm.

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The diagram shows the floor of a village hall.

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The caretaker needs to polish the floor.

One tin of polish normally costs £19
One tin of polish covers 12 m2 of floor.

There is a discount of 30% off the cost of the polish.

The caretaker has £130

Has the caretaker got enough money to buy the polish for the floor?
You must show all your working.

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The diagram shows the floor plan of Mary's conservatory.

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Mary is going to cover the floor with tiles.

The tiles are sold in packs.
One pack of tiles will cover 2m2
A pack of tiles normally costs £24.80
Mary gets a discount of 25% off the cost of the tiles.

Mary has £100

Does Mary have enough money to buy all the tiles she needs?
You must show all your working.

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Rectangle A B C D is split into four smaller rectangles.
Two of the smaller rectangles are shaded.

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4 space colon space x space equals space 1 space colon space 2

For rectangle A B C D, work out the ratio shaded area : unshaded area

Give your answer in its simplest form.

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A large rectangle is made by joining three identical small rectangles as shown.

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The perimeter of one small rectangle is 15 cm

Work out the perimeter of the large rectangle.

.............................cm

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The diagram shows a rectangle A B C D and a semicircle with diameter A B where A B space equals space 12 space cm. The point E lies on space D C spaceand also on the semicircle.

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Work out the area of the shaded region.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

...................................................... cm squared

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The diagram shows a shape.

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The shape has area 129 space cm squared

Work out the value of x.

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A B C D is a square with a side length of 4 x
M is the midpoint of D C.
N is the point on A D where N D space equals space x

B M N is a right-angled triangle.

Find an expression, in terms of x, for the area of triangle B M N.
Give your expression in its simplest form.

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The line l is a tangent to the circle x squared space plus space y squared space equals space 40 at the point A.
A is the point (2, 6).

The line l crosses the x-axis at the point P.

Work out the area of triangle O A P.

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Here is an L-shape.

All dimensions are in centimetres.

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The area of the L-shape is 65 cm2

Work out the value ofspace x.

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Here is a right-angled triangle.

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All measurements are in centimetres.
The area of the triangle is 2.5 cm2.

Find the perimeter of the triangle.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
You must show all of your working.

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Figure 2

The line l subscript 1, shown in Figure 2 has equation 2x + 3y = 26.
The line l subscript 2 passes through the origin O and is perpendicular to l subscript 1.
Find an equation for the line l subscript 2.

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The line l subscript 2 intersects the line l subscript 2 at the point C.
Line l subscript 1 crosses the y-axis at the point B as shown in Figure 2.

Find the area of triangle O B C.

Give your answer in the form a over b, where a and b are integers to be determined.

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The diagram shows a logo.

A B E and D C E are congruent triangles.
B C E is a sector of a circle, centre E.

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Show that the area of the logo is 510 cm2 to 2 significant figures.

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The diagram shows a shaded region bold T formed by removing an equilateral trianglespace P Q R spacefrom a regular hexagon A B C D E F.

The points P and Q lie on A B such that A B space equals space 1.5 cross times P Q.

Given that the area of region bold T is 72 square root of 3 space cm squared work out the length of P Q.

......................................................space cm space

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The diagram shows one face of a wall.
This face is in the shape of a pentagon with exactly one line of symmetry.

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Omondi is going to paint this face of the wall once.
He has to buy all the paint that he needs to use.

The paint in each tin of paint Omondi is going to buy will cover 16 m2 of the face of the wall.

Work out the least number of tins of paint Omondi will need to buy.
Show your working clearly.

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The diagram shows an isosceles triangle.

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The area of the triangle is 12 space cm squared

Work out the perimeter of the triangle.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

   cm 

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Calvin has 12 identical rectangular tiles.
He arranges the tiles to fit exactly round the edge of a shaded rectangle, as shown in the diagram below.

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Work out the area of the shaded rectangle.

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A comma space B and C are points on a circle with centre O.

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A O C is a diameter of the circle.

A B space equals space 8 space cm space space space space space space B C space equals space 15 space cm

Angle A B C space equals space 90 degree

Work out the total area of the regions shown shaded in the diagram.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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The diagram shows a regular octagon A B C D E F G H.

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Each side of the octagon has length 10 cm.

Find the area of the shaded region A C D E H.
Give your answer correct to the nearest cm squared

............................................. cm squared

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The diagram shows a circle and a trapezium.

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The height of the trapezium is h space cm.

The area of the circle is equal to the area of the trapezium.

Work out the value of h.
Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

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The diagram shows a shaded shape space A B C D spacemade from a semicircle space A B C spaceand a right-angled triangle A C D.

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A C spaceis the diameter of the semicircle A B C.

Work out the perimeter of the shaded shape.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

....................cm

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The diagram shows two circles such that the region bold R, shown shaded in the diagram, is the region common to both circles.

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One of the circles has centre O and radius 5cm.
The other circle has centre P and radius 4 cm.
Angle A O B space equals space 50 degree

Calculate the area of region bold R.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

...................................................... cm2

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The diagram shows Jane’s lawn.
It is in the shape of a square of side 36m and three semi-circles.

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She is going to spread fertiliser on the lawn at a rate of 30g per square metre.
The fertiliser is only sold in 10kg bags costing £15.80 each.

Calculate the cost of buying the bags of fertiliser for her lawn.
You must show all your working.

£ ........................................................

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ABCD is a trapezium.

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The perimeter of the trapezium is 56 cm.
The ratio AD : AB : DC : BC = 5 : 12 : 6 : 5.

Calculate the area of the trapezium.
Show your working.

..................................cm2

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In the diagram, the square and the trapezium share a common side of length x cm.

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The area of the square is equal to the area of the trapezium.

Work out the value of x.

x = .................. 

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Here is the floor plan of a rectangular room.

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Tim buys carpet tiles for this room.

Each tile is a square measuring 50cm by 50cm.
The tiles are only sold in packs of ten.
Each pack costs £20.
Tim pays for fitting at a rate of £7.50 per square metre, with any fraction of a square metre rounded up.

Work out the total cost of the tiles and fitting.

£ ..........................

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The lengths of the sides of two squares are integers, when measured in cm.
The difference between the areas of the two squares is 36cm2.

Find the lengths of the sides of the two squares.

.............................. cm
.............................. cm

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