Mensuration । Basics

01. The base of a rectangle is three times as long as the height. If the perimeter is 64. What is the area
of the rectangle?

02. The length of rectangular plot is greater than its breadth by 20 meters. If the perimeter of the plot
is 160 meters, what is the area of the plot in square meters?

03. If the length of a rectangular field is 30 feet more than its width and the perimeter is 380 feet.
What is the area of the field in square feet?

04. The area of a land is 432 square meters. If the ratios of lengths and breadths of that land and that
of another land be 3: 4 and 2 : 5 respectively, that what is the area of another land?

05. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the area of a square region. If the base of the parallelogram
is 125m. and the height is 5m, find the length of the diagonal of the square.

06. A lawn is in the form of a rectangle having its sides in the ratio 2:3. The area of the lawn is 1/6
hectares. Find the length and breadth of the lawn.

07. Area of a rectangular region is 160 sq. m. If the length is reduced by 6 m, it becomes a square
region. Determine the length and the breadth of the rectangle.\

08. The length of a rectangle is twice its width. If the length is increased by 4 inches and the width is
decreased by 3 inches, a new rectangle is formed whose perimeter is 62 inches. What is the length
of the original rectangle?

09. ABCD is a rectangle. If its length decreases by 5 meter and width increase by 3 meter then it
loose its area by 9 square meter. If the length increases by 3 meter and width increase by 2 meter
then its area increases by 67 square meter. What is the perimeter of rectangle ABCD?

10. Area of a rectangle is 150-meter sq. When the breadth of the same rectangle is increased by 2
meter and the length decreased by 5 meter the area of the rectangle decreases by 30-meter square.
What is the perimeter of the square whose side are equal to the length of the rectangle?

11. The length of a rectangle is twice its breadth. If its length is decreased by 5 cm and breadth is
increased by 5 cm, the area of the rectangle is increased by 75 sq.cm. Find the length of the
rectangle? [homework]

12. The area of a rectangular plot is 323 square meters. Its perimeter is 72 meters. Find the length and
breadth of the plot. [homework]

13. A farmer wishes to start a 100 sq.m rectangular vegetable garden. Since he has only 30 m barbed
wire, he fences three sides of the garden letting his house compound wall act as the fourth side
fencing. The dimension of the garden is [homework]

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14. The ratio between the length and breadth of a rectangular park is 3:2. If a man cycling along the
boundary of the park at the speed of 12 km per hour completes one side in 8 minutes then what is
the area of the park? [homework]

15. DBBL is planning to plant trees in a rectangular land which is 90 feet long and 66 feet wide.
There is a wall of 5 feet high around the land. They decided to plant trees in row and column
leaving 5 feet from the wall and the distance between trees will be 4 feet. How many maximum
trees can be planted in this land?

16. A landscape architect is designing a rectangular flowerbed to be border with 28 Plants that are
placed 1m apart. He needs an inner rectangular space in the center for plants that must be 1 m
from the border of the bed and that require 24 square meters for planting. What should the overall
dimensions of the flowerbed be?

17. An amount of Tk. 7200 is spent to cover the floor of a room by carpet. An amount of Tk. 576
would be saved if the breadth were 3 meters less. What is the breadth of the room?

18. An amount of Tk. 7500 is spent to carpet a room of length 20 meters. If the breadth of that room
is reduced by 4 meters, an amount of Tk. 6000 would be spent. What is the breadth of that room?

19. A garden is 60 meter long and 20 meter wide. Inside the garden there is a 5-meter-wide road
around it. What is the area of the road in square meter?

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