in cmn2

4 Express c 50 mm2
aa 400mm 734 mm2
d 25 mm2 f 1220 mm
b 2500 mm2
m2
5 Express in
aa 5500 cm2 c 760 cm2 ee 29700 cm2
b 140000 cm2 d 18 600 cm2 f 192000 cm2
6 Express in km2
a 7500000m c 50000 m2 e 176m2
b 430000 m2 d 245000 m2 f 750000 m2
 Worked example
A floorboard is 2 m long and 15 cm wide.
Find the area of the top of this floorboard, in cm?.
15 cm Since the answer is to
2m be
square centimetres, we given
Length =
2m =
2 x 100 cm length in centimetres. express
= 200 cm

Therefore area of rectangle = 200 x 15 cm2

= 3000 cm2

Find the area of each of rectangles 8 to 15, giving your answer in the
unit in brackets.

Length Breadth
8 10 m 50 cm (cm2)
9 6 cm 30 mm (mm2)
10 50 m 35 cm (cm2)
11 140 cm

12 400 cm
1m (cm)
200 cm (m)
13
3m
14 m (cm)
1.2 cm 5 mm
15 (mm2)
0.4 km 0.05 kmn
16
(m2)
The top
p OI
my desk is 1.5 m long and 60 cm wide. Find its area u

Square centimetres.
17 A roll of wallpaper is 10 m long and 50 cm wide. Find its area in
square metres.
18 A school hall
measuring 20 m by 15 m is to be covered with square
floor tiles of side 50 cm. How
many tiles are required?
19 A
rectangular carpet measures 4 m by 3 m. Find its area.
What is the cost of cleaning this
carpet at £3.45 per square metre?
20 How many
square linen serviettes, of side 50 cm, may be cut from a
roll of linen 25 m long and 1m wide?
21 How
many square concrete paving slabs, each of side 0.5 m, are
required to pave a rectangular yard measuring 9 m by 6 m?

22 A patio that is
9 m square is to be covered with 450 mm
square
paving stones and edged, all the way round, with 250 mm
long
bricks. How many paving stones are needed?
What extra information do
you need in order to find the number of
bricks needed?
23 A rectangular field measuring 40 m by 25 m is to be sown with
grass seed so that 90 g of seed is used to cover each square metre.
Each box of seed holds 5 kg.
How many boxes are needed?
24 A rectangular lawn measuring 3 m by 4 m has a lm wide path
round the outside edge.
Find the area of this path.

25 Diana is tiling
wall with two different sized
a

The smaller tile has sides 64 mm square tiles.

long. Four of these smaller tiles
cover the same area as one
larger tile.
What is the length of a side of a larger tile?