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Perimeter

Perimeter = distance around the edge.

You could walk around the perimeter.

All dimensions must have the same units !

Don't mix cm with m.

Perimeter has plain units.

Example

P = 5 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 9 + 3 + 2 + 2 cm
P = 28 cm

Area

Area = floor space covered

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You could paint an area.

All dimensions must have the same units !

Don't mix cm, with m
2

1 m = 100cm x 100cm
2

= 10000 cm

Area hasunits .
2

Area of a square

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Example

Calculate the area of the square

Area of a rectangle

Examples

Calculate the area of the rectangles

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Area of a triangle

Area of a triangle = x base x perpendicular height

Examples

Find the area of the triangle below:

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What is the length of the base of the triangle, if it has an area of 45 cm ?

2

Area of a circle

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Area of kite

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Example

Calculate the area of the following kite:

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Area of Trapezium

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Area of a trapezium = x average of base x perpendicular height

Example

What is the area of this trapezium ?

(Each square represents 1 cm )
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Area of a parallelogram

Example

Calculate the area of the parallelogram :

Area of a rhombus

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Example

Calculate the area of the rhombus:

( The sizes are for the complete diagonals)

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Volume

Volume = capacity held

You could fill a volume

All dimensions must have the same units !

Don't mix cm with m.

Volume has units

Notice that for a cuboid

Example
Calculate the volume of the cuboid below:

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Converting 1m to litres
3

First, convert the units

But 1 cm = 1 ml and 1000 ml = 1litre

3

Divide cm by 1000 for litres.

3

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So 1 000 000 cm = 1000 litres

3

1 m = 1000 litres
3

Volume of a Sphere

A sphere has volume

Where r is the radius of the sphere.

Examples

Calculate the volume of the following sphere.

Give your answer correct to 1 dp and also to 2 sig figs.

Calculate the volume of the following sphere.

Give your answer correct to 1 sig fig.

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Calculate the diameter of a sphere which has a volume of 700cm .

Give your answer correct to 1 dp.
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Volume of a Cone
A cone has volume

Where r is the radius of the circular part of the cone and h is the perpendicular height of
the cone.

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Example
Calculate the volume of an ice cream cone which has a diameter of 4cm and a height of 6cm.
Give your answer correct to 1 dp.

How many of these cones can be filled from 1litre of ice cream ?
1000 cm = 1 l
3

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1000 25.1 = 39.84

So 39 cones can be filled from one litre of ice cream.
Example
Calculate the height an ice cream cone which has a diameter of 4cm and a volume of 35ml.
Give your answer correct to 1 dp.

The cone is 8.4 cm tall.

Example
Calculate the diameter of an ice cream cone which has a height of 8cm and a volume of 90ml.
Give your answer correct to 1 dp.

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Volume of a prism

For a prism, V=Ah

So Volume = Area x height (or Area x Length if laying down)

Example

What is the volume of a prism which has an area of 37 cm and a height of 4 cm ?

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Volume of a cylinder

A cylinder is a circular prism,

Example

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Calculate the volume of a tin can which has a height of 0.8m and a diameter of 10 cm. Give
your answer correct to 1 sigfig.

Example
Calculate the diameter of a tin can which has a height of 8cm and a volume of 90ml. Give your
answer correct to 1 dp.

Volume of a pyramid

The volume of any pyramid is given as

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where A is the area of the base of the pyramid and h is its height.
Examples

What is the volume of this squared based pyramid ?

What is the volume of this rectangular based pyramid ?

What is the volume of this triangular based pyramid ?

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Surface area

The surface area is the total external area

of the shape.
Example

Find the surface area of the cuboid :

This shape has 6 faces

2 faces have area 6cm x 4cm

2 faces have area 6cm x 2cm
2 faces have area 2cm x 4cm

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2 x 6cm x 4cm = 48 cm
2 x 6cm x 2cm = 24 cm

2
2

2 x 2cm x 4cm = 16 cm

Surface Area = 88 cm

Surface Area Volume

Composite area

Cut into convenient shapes

Find missing dimensions
Calculate individual areas
Calculate total

Remember
all dimensions must have the same units !
Example

A shape = A 1 + A 2
A 1 = 5x2 = 10 cm

A 2 = 3x9 = 27 cm
A shape = 37 cm

Composite Volume

Cut into convenient shapes

Find missing dimensions
Calculate individual areas
Calculate total

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