Area and Perimeter Worksheet Name

Area and Perimeter Worksheet Name:

Basic College Mathematics: Geometry Section:

In today’s activity, we will use MS Office Visio to create a floor plan with all the appropriate rooms, appliances, and furniture. Once we have our floor constructed and labeled with the dimensions, you will need to calculate the area and perimeter of each room and the total area of your home.

1. You will create a floor plan of a house. To keep it simple, just create a one level ranch floor plan. If you wish, you may recreate your current residence or choose to build your dream home. Keep it simple (KIS) if you are new to this drawing program. Once you have the floor drawn and the dimension listed in the table in part two, you may choose to add furniture, appliances, doors, etc. Here are the steps to creating your floor plan using MS Office Visio:

a. On the File menu, point to Maps and Floor Plans, and then click Floor Plan.

By default, this template opens a scaled drawing page in landscape orientation . You can change these settings at any time.

b. Create the basic exterior wall structure in one of the following ways.

1. Use room shapes.

1. From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag one of the room shapes onto the drawing page.

2. Resize the room shape by dragging the control handles and selection handles on individual walls.

2. Use wall shapes.

1. From the Walls, Shell and Structure

2. Resize walls by dragging an endpoint ( or ).

3. Drag an endpoint ( or ) of one wall to another wall.

The endpoints turn red when the walls are glued. Intersections between two walls are cleaned up automatically.

NOTE For walls to join properly, Glue to Shape geometry must be selected in the Snap & Glue dialog box.

Erie Community College Title III Grant c. Create the interior wall structure.

1. Drag wall shapes onto the drawing page, positioning them inside the exterior structure.

2. Resize walls by dragging an endpoint ( or ).

3. Drag an endpoint ( or ) of one wall to another wall.

4. The endpoints turn red when the walls are glued. Intersections between two walls get cleaned up automatically.

NOTE For walls to join properly, Glue to Shape geometry must be selected in the Snap & Glue dialog box.

d. Add other structural elements.

1. From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag structural shapes, such as columns, onto the drawing page.

2. From Building Core, drag building core shapes, such as stairs, onto the drawing page.

e. Add doors and windows.

1. From the Walls, Shell and Structure stencil, drag door and window shapes on top of walls.

Doors and windows automatically rotate to align with the wall and glue to the wall. They also acquire the wall's thickness and move with walls when you reposition them.

f. Add dimension lines to walls.

1. Right-click a wall, and then click Add a Dimension.

2. Reposition the dimension lines and dimension text by dragging a control handle .

NOTE To see a tip about a control handle for a selected shape, pause the pointer over the handle.

3. If you add a dimension to a wall, you can resize the wall by selecting the dimension shape, typing the dimension you want, and then clicking away from the dimension shape.

2. Next, you will list the dimensions of your rooms in the following table. Make sure you have drawn a minimum of the rooms listed. You may add other rooms to the list. If you were selling this house, the dimensions of each room would be necessary. Note: if you chose an “L” Room or the room is not rectangular in shape, then you will need to list it as two separate rectangles. Erie Community College Title III Grant Room Name Length (ft.) Width (ft.) Perimeter (ft.) Area (sq. ft.) Living Room Kitchen Bathroom Master Bedroom 2nd Bedroom

3. Calculate the total area of the house (hint: add the areas of each room above)

4. Estimate a purchase price for the house:

How much is it per square foot?

5. Interior Decorating:

You would like to add crown molding in the living and dining room at a cost of $5.59 per linear foot. What would be the total cost?

In the second bedroom, you would like to add a wallpaper border at a cost of $0.79 per linear foot. What would be the total cost?

In the living room and master bedroom, you want new carpeting at a cost of $54.50 per square yard installed. What would be the total cost?

Finally, in the kitchen, you want to put down new linoleum at a cost of $5.60 per square foot. What would be the total cost?

6. Please print your floor plan and submit with this worksheet.

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