Volume Basics
What is the volume of a cube with side length of 3 units?
27 cubic units or 27 units3
What operations do you use to find the total volume of two combined prisms?
Multiplication to get the volume of each, then addition to combine them.
What is the formula for the area of a rectangle?
length x width
What do you call a 4-sided polygon?
A quadrilateral
A fish tank has a length of 10 inches, a width of 5 inches, and a height of 8 inches. What is its volume?
400 cubic inches
What unit is used to measure volume?
Cubic units
A rectangular prism has a volume of 36 cubic inches and a height of 3 inches. What is the area of its base?
12 square inches.
A rectangle has side lengths of 1/2" and 2/3". What is its area?
1/3 square inches or 1/3"2
What shape has at least one pair of parallel sides?
A trapezoid
A gift box is 6 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 3 inches high. What is its volume?
72 cubic inches
How do you find the volume of a rectangular prism?
Length x width x height
A cube has a side length of 5 cm. What is its volume?
125 cm3 or 125 cubic cm.
A square has a side length of 3/4 inches. What is its area?
9/16 square inches
A parallelogram has four equal sides but no right angles. What is it?
A rhombus
A garden bed is 5 feet long and 2 feet wide. If the soil is 1/2 foot deep, what is its volume?
5 cubic feet.
A rectangular prism has dimensions of 3' x 8' x 10'. What is its volume?
240'3 or 240 cubic feet
A tank is filled with 5 layers of 8 cubic blocks. What is the total volume?
40 cubic units.
If one side of a rectangle is 2/5 units and the other is 4/7 units, what is the area?
8/35 square units.
What shape has adjacent congruent sides?
A pool is 10 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 2 meters deep. What is its volume?
80 cubic meters
If a cube has a volume of 8 cubic inches, what is the length of one side?
2 inches
The volume of a box is 54 cubic units, and its base area is 9 square units. What is the height?
6 units.
A rectangle's area is 5/8 square feet, and one side is 5/4 feet long. What is the length of the other side?
1/2 foot.
Rhombus, rectangle, kite, trapezoid, parallelogram, quadrilateral, polygon, and (obviously) square
A water tank can hold 1200 cubic units of water. If the base is 40 units wide and 30 units long, what is its height?
1 unit