Page 120 - Revised Maths Wisdom Class - 6

118 MATHS

SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

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1. The perimeter of a square is 48 m. The area of a rectangle is 4 sq. m less than the area of the given square. If
the length of the rectangle is 14 m, then find its breadth.
2. Find the change in area of a rectangle when its length is doubled and breadth remaining the same.
3. A road 4 m wide is built all around inside a square park of side 158 m. Find the area of the remaining part of
the park.
4. If 75 units is the perimeter of a rectangular field then find the number of columns. The number of rows is
10 less than the number of columns.
5. The length of a rectangular field is twice its breadth. Soumya jogged around it 5 times and covered a distance
of 3 km. What is the length of the field?

INTEGRATED QUESTION (ARCHITECTURE/MATHS)
INTEGRATED QUESTION (ARCHITECTURE/MATHS)
The municipal corporation of a city is planning to make a park in the city.

1. The park will have a water pond in the shape of the
rectangle. The side of the pond will be 8 metres
and width will be 5 metres. It will have a square
shape pond on the other side as shown in the
picture. The one side of this pond will be 2 metres.
Find the total area of the both ponds.

2. A square shape swimming pool with perimeter of
440 m also needs to be made. To make it the floor
of the pool has to be tiled. If the cost of the tiling
is ` 300 per metre square, find the cost of tiling the
swimming pool floor.
3. The park will also have a parking space. Each side
of space will have area of 15 square metre. What
will be its dimension.

VOCABULARYOCABULARY
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Area Perimeter Square Boundary Regular Irregular Shape

ACTIVITY TIMECTIVITY TIME
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Objective: To distinguish between perimeter and area.

Materials Required: Measuring tape, ruler, chalk, thin rope.
Procedure:
1. The class will be divided into two groups say ‘A and P’ where A stands for area and P stands for perimeter.
2. The teacher will allow them to work on a patch of land (rectangle or square) in the field. Group ‘P’ will find
out the length of rope required to make a boundary.

3. Group ‘A’ will divide the land into squares of equal size (1 m × 1 m) using chalk and find the area of the land.