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Mathematics
Quarter 3 – Module 9:
Solving Routine and Non-routine
Problems Involving Perimeter

CO_Q3_Mathematics 4_Module 9
Mathematics – Grade 4
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Quarter 3 – Module 9: Solving Routine and Non-routine Problems Involving Perimeter
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Mathematics
Quarter 3 – Module 9:
Solving Routine and Non-routine
Problems Involving Perimeter
Introductory Message

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 What I Need to Know

Word problem involving perimeter is just an application of

basic math skills but there are also some problems involving
perimeter that are complicated. We have to follow a step by step
solution, make an illustration, choose a formula and make use of
different strategies to come up with the right answer.

After going through this module, you are expected to: solve
routine and non-routine problems in real-life situations involving
perimeter of squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and
trapezoids.

What I Know

A. Read the following items carefully. Solve each problem and

choose the letter of your answer. Write your answers on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. One side of an equilateral triangular park measures 20 m.

What is the perimeter of the triangular park?
A. 40 m B. 50 m C. 60 m D. 70 m

2. Francis walked around a small rectangular garden. The

rectangular garden is 8 m long and 7 meters wide. What is
the perimeter of the rectangular garden?
A. 38 m B. 30 m C. 23 m D. 15 m

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 3. Jonel enclosed his vegetable garden with a fence. The four
sides of the garden measures 10, 15, 17 and 9 meters. How
long will be the fence?
A. 25 m B. 32 m C. 42 m D. 51 m

4. One side of a square playground of Bacon West Central

School in Sorsogon City, measures 35 meters. How many
meters of chicken wire are needed to enclose the playground?
A. 70 m B. 105 m C. 140 m D. 175 m

5. Josel bought a lot whose sides measure 23 m, 18 m, 23 m,

and 18 m. What is the perimeter of the lot he bought?
A. 82 m B. 75 m C. 54 m d. 41 m

B. Read the following items carefully. Solve the following problems

by identifying what is asked, the given facts, the needed
operation, the solution and the answer.

6. Rose will plant tomatoes 1 meter apart along the edges of an

8 m by 7 m rectangular garden. How many tomato plants are
needed by Rose?

7. An equilateral triangle has a perimeter equal to the perimeter

of a rectangle whose length is 15 cm and whose width is 9
cm. Find the measurement of the sides of the equilateral
triangle.

8. The width of a rectangular swimming pool is 15 m. The length

is twice the width. Find the perimeter of the pool.

9. A rectangle with a length of 80 cm and a width of 50 cm is to

be cut into a square and a rectangle. Find the perimeter of
the rectangle.

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10. The floor plan of Mr. Cruz’ house has the shape of two
squares with sides 15 m and 6 m, respectively as shown in
the given figure below. What is the perimeter of his floor plan?
6m

15 m

Are you done answering?

If yes, time to check. Please go to page 16 for the Answer Key.

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 Lesson Solving Routine and Non-
1 routine Problems Involving
Perimeter

What’s In

Find the perimeter of each figure. Write your answers on a separate

sheet of paper.

1. 10 cm 2.

6m

P = ___________ cm P = ______________ m

3. 12 cm 4. 8m

4 cm 5 cm 4m

10 cm
P = _________________ cm P = _________________ m

5. 7 cm

4 cm

P = _____________ cm

Are you done answering?

If yes, time to check. Please go to page 16 for the Answer Key.

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 What’s New

Read the problem below and answer the questions that follow on
a separate sheet of paper.

The Barangay Chairman of San Isidro encouraged each

household to participate in the Community Project “Clean and
Green Program.” The Dechavez family decided to convert their
vacant lot into a vegetable garden. They decided to surround it with
barb wires to protect the plants from stray animals. How many
meters of fencing materials will they buy given the measurement
of the vacant lot below.

What does the problem ask for?

What shall we do to solve the problem?
What is the answer to the problem?

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 What is It

The problem presented is an example of a Routine Word

Problem. Routine problems are simple practical word problems.

To analyze and solve the given problem, we will use the

4-step plan.

A. Understand the Problem.

1. Know what is asked in the problem.
The distance around the vacant lot.

2. Know the given facts or data.

Measurement of the sides: 3 m, 9 m, 8 m, 5 m

B. Plan
1. Draw or illustrate to visualize the problem. (optional)
9m

3m 5m
8m
3. Determine the operation or formula to use.
Formula: P = s + s + s + s

C. Solve to carry out the plan.

Solve using the formula.
P=s+s+s+s
=3m+9m+8m+5m
P = 25 m

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D. Check and Look back.
What is the final answer to the problem?
Answer: The perimeter or the fencing materials needed
is 25 m.

Let us study another example, a non-routine problem.

One side of a square table measures 3 m. If three tables are

placed end to end, what will be the perimeter of the new table?

A non-routine problem is any complex problem that

requires some degree of creativity to solve. Some routine problems
require multiple steps. These problems can also be solved in
multiple ways or using different strategies.

Strategies that can be used include: Listing/Table Method, Guess

and Check, Drawing/Diagram, Using patterns, etc.

 Let us solve the problem by drawing or illustrating the

picture.
3m 3m 3m

3m 3m 3m
3m 3m 3m

 By placing it end to end, it would look like this:

3m 3m 3m = 9m

3m

 The new table formed is rectangular in shape, the new

dimensions are: length = 9 m, width = 3 m
9m
3m

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  Let us substitute the given values in the formula:
P=2x(l+w)
= 2 x ( 9 m + 3 m)
= 2 x 12 m
P = 24 m

Therefore, the perimeter of the new table is 24 m.

Here are the equations/formulas for the Perimeter of different

plane figures.

Figures Formula

s P = s + s + s + s or
P = 4 x s or P = 4s
Square

P= l+l+w+w
w P = (2 x l) + ( 2 x w)
l P = 2l + 2w
Rectangle

a c
b P= a+b+c
Triangle

s s P = s + s + s or
s P = 3 x s or P = 3s
Equilateral Triangle

b
h P = b + b + h + h or
P = (2 x b) + (2 x h) or
Parallelogram P = 2b + 2h

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 b1
s s P = b 1 + b2 + s + s

b2
Trapezoid

Let’s try another sample problem.

Raymund uses his free time in

reading books. If his rectangular book
has a length of 20 cm and a width of 15
cm, what is the perimeter of the book?

1. What is asked?
The perimeter of the book.

2. What are the given facts?

length is 20 cm, width is 15 cm

3. What is the operation or formula to be used?

Multiplication & Addition: P = 2 x ( l + w )

4. Show your solution.

P = 2 x (l + w)
= 2 x (20 cm + 15 cm)
= 2 x 35 cm
P = 70 cm

5. What is the final answer?

The perimeter of the book is 70 cm.

Let us solve the next problem using illustration.

A square is formed by 4 identical rectangles. Find the

perimeter of each rectangle if the perimeter of the square is
160 cm.

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Illustration and Solution:

40 cm

40 cm

side of square = 160 ÷ 4

= 40 cm

Width of each rectangle = 40 ÷ 4

= 10 cm

Perimeter of the rectangle = 2 x ( l + w )

= 2 x ( 40 cm + 10 cm)
= 2 x 50 cm
= 100 cm

Answer: The perimeter of each rectangle is 100 cm.

What’s More

Solve the following problems. Use the four-step plan to solve the
problems. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers.

1. The four sides of a trapezoid measures 30 cm, 20 cm, 45 cm

and 20 cm. What is the perimeter of the trapezoid?

2. Narlyn jogs around a rectangular park that measures 125 m

by 80 m. How far is the distance covered by Narlyn if she goes
around the park twice?

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 3. Mr. Reyes puts a rectangular fence around his kalamansi
orchard to keep stray animals from destroying his plants. The
longer side of his fence measures 44 m, while the shorter is
26 m. The posts in the garden fence were placed 2 m apart.
How many posts would Mr. Reyes use to put up the perimeter
fence?

Are you done answering?

If yes, time to check. Please go to page 16 for the Answer Key.

What I Have Learned

How do we solve routine and non-routine word problems

involving perimeter?

To solve routine problems involving perimeter of plane

figures, we have to follow the four-step plan:

UNDERSTAND
 Know what is asked.
 Know the given facts.

PLAN
 Draw or illustrate to visualize the problem. (optional)
 Determine the operation or formula to use.

SOLVE
 Solve using the formula.

CHECK AND LOOK BACK

 Write the correct answer.

Non-routine problems can be solved by drawing a picture,

using a number line, making a table, and others.
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 What I Can Do

Solve the following problems.

1. Karen has a square cartolina whose sides measure 60 cm each.

She cuts the cartolina into two equal rectangles. Find the
perimeter of one piece of rectangle.

2. A rectangle has a length of 30 cm and a width smaller by 5 cm.

What is its perimeter?

Are you done answering?

If yes, time to check. Please go to page 16 for the Answer Key.

Assessment

Solve each problem by following the correct step.

1. Anna loves chocolates. She ate a rectangular chocolate with

a length of 11 cm and a width of 7 cm. What is the perimeter
of the chocolate?

2. Johnny plays around a rectangular table. The table is 3 m by

5 m. He runs his toy car around the table five times. What is
the distance covered by the toy car?

3. The three sides of a triangle measure 20 cm, 32 cm and 50

cm. What is the perimeter of the triangle?

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 4. Twelve light posts are placed around a square park. There are
4 light posts along each side of the park. If the distance
between the light posts are 10 meters, what is the distance
around the park?

5. Tina’s garden is shaped like a trapezoid whose sides are 5

meters, 7 meters, 10 meters and 15 meters respectively. What
is the measurement of the fence which surrounds the
garden?

6. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 55 cm. One of the

equal sides is 17 cm. How long is the base?

7. A square is cut into 4 identical rectangles. Find the perimeter

of each rectangle if the perimeter of the square is 48 cm.

8. Neo and Mike has an equilateral triangular colored paper

each whose measures of each side are 15 cm. They want to
make a square kite and combine the 2 colored papers. What
is the perimeter of the kite?

9. Nine identical small squares were put together to form a

bigger square. The perimeter of each small square is 20 cm.
Find the perimeter of the big square.

10. Joey bought a square lot. The measurement of the side is 80

m. He divided it into two equal parts. The resulting 2 lots are
rectangular. He gave one lot to his brother. What is the
perimeter of the remaining lot?

Are you done answering?

If yes, time to check. Please go to page 16 for the Answer Key.

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 Additional Activities

Read and answer the problem below. Please write your four-step
solution and illustration on your answer sheet.

Square ABCD is formed by 4 identical rectangles. The length

and width of each rectangle are 12 cm and 3 cm, respectively.
Inside of the figure is a rectangle, find the side of the small
rectangle and its perimeter.

A 12 cm B

3 cm

D C

Are you done answering?

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What I Know What’s In What’s More
1. C 1. 40 cm 1. 115 cm
2. B 2. 18 m 2. 820 m
3. D 3. 31 cm 3. 70 posts
4. C 4. 24 m
5. A 5. 22 cm
6. 30 plants
7. 16 cm
8. 90 m
9. 160 cm
10. 72 m
What I Can Do Assessment Additional
1. 36 cm Activities
1. 180 cm
2. 80 m
2. 110 cm 3. 102 cm 1. Side of the
4. 120 m small rectangle: w
5. 37 m =3 cm
6. 21 cm
7. 30 cm l = 4 cm
8. 60 cm 2. Perimeter of the
9. 60 cm small rectangle =
10. 240 m 14 cm
Answer Key
References

Tabilang, Alma R. et. Al. Mathematics 4 Teacher’s Guide.

Department of Education. 2015. pp. 248-251.

Tabilang, Alma R. et. Al. Mathematics 4 Learner’s Material.

Department of Education. 2015. pp. 188-191,

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