Word problems about a perimeter

Difficulty Stretch · Set 49o8rj

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1
A garden is 17 meters long and 12 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
2
A garden is 52 meters long and 52 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
3
A garden is 48 meters long and 44 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
4
A garden is 39 meters long and 54 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
5
A garden is 48 meters long and 31 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
6
A garden is 43 meters long and 55 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
7
A garden is 10 meters long and 24 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
8
A garden is 59 meters long and 50 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
9
A garden is 44 meters long and 2 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
10
A garden is 35 meters long and 14 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
11
A garden is 58 meters long and 34 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
12
A garden is 6 meters long and 50 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
13
A garden is 29 meters long and 50 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
14
A garden is 57 meters long and 8 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
15
A garden is 8 meters long and 35 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
16
A garden is 44 meters long and 49 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
17
A garden is 41 meters long and 6 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
18
A garden is 19 meters long and 10 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
19
A garden is 35 meters long and 17 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?
20
A garden is 29 meters long and 18 meters wide. How many meters of fence go all the way round it?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 60.
Every problem in it will take one step.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the two lengths were multiplied — that covers the garden; a fence goes round the edge of it.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 233 different ones, 97% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

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