Properties of Rectangles
This worksheet helps fifth-grade students understand and apply the properties of rectangles, including calculating perimeter and area.
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Properties of Rectangles
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Show your work where necessary.
1. Which of the following statements about a rectangle is TRUE?
All sides are equal in length.
It has three right angles.
Opposite sides are parallel and equal in length.
It has at least one acute angle.
2. A square is a special type of rectangle because:
It has no right angles.
All its sides are equal in length.
Its opposite sides are not parallel.
It has only two vertices.
3. A rectangle has four angles, each measuring 90 degrees.
4. The sum of the interior angles of any rectangle is degrees.
5. The perimeter of a rectangle is found by adding the lengths of all its .
6. Draw a rectangle with a length of 6 units and a width of 3 units. Label the sides.
7. Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle you drew in question 6.
8. Calculate the area of the rectangle you drew in question 6.
9. All rectangles are squares.
True
False
10. A rectangle has four equal sides.
True
False