Polynomial Area and Volume Practice

Area = length Area = length x width

x width
Perimeter = 2l + 2w
Perimeter = 4s

𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨 = 𝝅𝝅𝒓𝒓𝟐𝟐
𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪 = 𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐

Area = ½ bh
Perimeter = s1 + s2 + s3

1. a) What is the area of this square with sides of 5𝑥𝑥 4 𝑦𝑦 2 ?

5𝑥𝑥 4 𝑦𝑦 2

b) What is the perimeter of the same figure?

2. Find the perimeter and area of a rectangle with a length of (6x-10) and a width of (4x+3).

Perimeter:________________________

Area:__________________________

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3. The perimeter of the triangle below is (12x - 7). Find the length of the missing side.

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(x – 8)

(8x + 4)

4. Find the length of the side of the square if the perimeter is 44𝑥𝑥 3 + 36𝑦𝑦.

5. Find the total area of both rectangles.

3x (4x - 1)

(2x + 5)

(6x + 9)

Total Area: ________________________

6. Find the area of the shaded region.

(3x + 2)
(2x + 3)
(x – 8)

(4x - 5)

Shaded region:____________________________

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7. Find the perimeter and area of a rectangle with length (6) and width (x + 2).

Perimeter: __________________________

Area: ___________________________

8. If the area of a rectangle with length (4x) is 4𝑥𝑥 2 + 12𝑥𝑥, find the width.

9. The length of a rectangular garden is 4 less than twice the width. Find the perimeter and area
of the garden.

Perimeter: ______________________________

Area: ____________________________

10. The perimeter of a square is 40𝑥𝑥 4 + 16𝑥𝑥 2 . Find the area.

11. One side of a square is (−3𝑛𝑛 + 7). What is its perimeter?

12. The perimeter of a square is (4𝑥𝑥 − 44). What is the length of each side?

13. The quantity 4𝑥𝑥 2 − 3𝑥𝑥 + 8 is subtracted from 𝑥𝑥 2 − 2𝑥𝑥 + 11. Simplify.

14. NASA engineers are designing a mirror that will be attached to a satellite. The mirror will
be the shape of a polygon with 4 sides. The lengths of 3 of the sides are 2x + 5, 6x – 7, and
x – 4. The perimeter of the mirror must be 12x + 12. What does the length of the 4th side
need to be?

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15. One side of a triangle has a length of 8𝑚𝑚2 − 6𝑚𝑚 − 14. Another side has length of 25 – 3m.
The last side has a length of 1 − 𝑚𝑚 − 𝑚𝑚2 . What is the perimeter, in terms of m, of the
triangle.

16. An empty jar has a volume of 8𝑥𝑥 2 + 2𝑥𝑥 − 4 cubic inches. Josh pours 4𝑥𝑥 2 − 3𝑥𝑥 + 2 cubic
inches of water into the jar. How many more cubic inches of water could the jar still hold?

17. Latesha is making an open wooden toy box to hold the building blocks at her day care
center. She has a square panel of cedar with side length of 24 inches. The first step is to cut
out congruent squares from each corner. She needs to know what the side length of the
cutout square should be in order for the finished toy box to have the greatest volume
possible.

1. Draw a sketch to help solve the problem.

2. The toy box will be square and x inches deep. Write an expression for the side length of
the finished box.

3. Write an equation to represent the volume. (hint: volume = l x w x h)

4. Express the volume as the sum of monomials.

5. Latesha decides to try some possible values for x. She knows that x must be less than 12.
Explain why.

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6. Complete the table for each value of x.

x (in.) 2 3 4 5 6

Volume (sq. in.)

7. Latesha decides that she will use an integer valued for x, so that she does not have to cut
fractions of an inch.

a. What value for x should she choose? ________________________

b. Explain why this is the best choice.

c. What are the dimensions of her finished toy box?