Geometry word problems
The question
What is the distance all the way around it, in meters?
The tennis court at Jordan's sports club is a rectangle 11 meters long and 8 meters wide.
The tennis court at Jordan's sports club is a rectangle 11 meters long and 8 meters wide.
numbers:2(11
2 × (11 + 8)
asked:What is the distance all the way around it, in meters?
2 × (11 + 8) =38
38 meters
- Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- The numbers are 2 and (11. What to do with them comes from the story.
- The distance all the way around is the PERIMETER — every side added up, and equal sides can be counted with a multiplication. So the working is: 2 × (11 + 8).
- 2 × (11 + 8) = 38 meters — that answers "What is the distance all the way around it, in meters?".
How it works.
- 01
Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- 02
The numbers are 2 and (11. What to do with them comes from the story.
- 03
The distance all the way around is the PERIMETER — every side added up, and equal sides can be counted with a multiplication. So the working is: 2 × (11 + 8).
- 04
2 × (11 + 8) = 38 meters — that answers "What is the distance all the way around it, in meters?".