Basic Volume
Volume Word Problems
Composite Volume
Customary Units
Metric Units
100
Find the volume with base area of 9 cm2 and height of 2 cm.
18 cm3
100
A cube has a length of 2 inches. What is the volume of the cube?
8 in3
100
A building is made up of 2 rectangular prisms. Building A has a volume of 25 ft3 and building B has a volume of 15 ft3. What is the total volume of the entire building?
40 ft3
100
Which is not a customary unit of measurement:
A) Gallon
B) Meter
C) Yard
D) Mile
Meter
100
Fill in the blank:
_______ m --> 46 cm -->460 mm
0.46 m
200
What is the volume of a cube with heigh of 3 inches?
27 in3
200
Daisy constructed a toy box with a volume of 16 cm³. The box was made in the shape of a rectangular prism. Create a model to show what her toy box would look like. Label the dimensions.
See student's drawing.
200
A building has a total volume of 200 ft3. One part of the building has a volume of 50 ft3. What is the volume of the other part?
150 ft3
200
How many quarts are in a gallon?
4 quarts
200
Fill in the blank:
0.2 m --> 20 cm --> ________mm
200 mm
300
What is the volume of this figure?
3 x 4 x 5 = 60 units cubed
300
Wells Fargo Bank has a total volume of 225 ft³. The volume of one section of the bank is 49 ft³.
What is the volume of the other section of the bank?
176 ft3
300
Determine the volume. Explain your mathematical reasoning.
A) 2 x 2 x 4 = 16 cubic squares
B) 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 cubic squares
Total = 16 + 8 = 24 cubic squares
300
Fill in the blank:
________ feet = 5 yards
(3 feet = 1 yard)
15 feet
300
Fill in the blank:
0.205 m --> __________cm --> 205 mm
20.5 cm
400
What is the volume of a rectangular prism that is 5 feet tall with a base area of 30 ft²?
150 ft3
400
Daisy constructed a toy box with a volume of 48 cm³. The box was made in the shape of a rectangular prism. Create 2 models to show what her toy box would look like. Label the dimensions.
See student's drawings.
400
A) 20 x 5 x 2 = 200 cm3
B) 7 x 2 x 10 = 140 cm3
Total: 200 + 140 = 340 cm3
400
A child's height is 3 feet 2 inches tall. He wants to ride a rollercoaster that requires riders to be at least 40 inches tall. Is the child able to ride this rollercoaster ride? (1 feet = 12 inches)
No, he is only 38 inches tall.
400
How many 300 mL bottles can be filled from a 3 Liter jug of water? (1 Liter = 1000 mL)
10 bottles
500
This rectangular prism has a total volume of 192 cm3. What is the height of the missing side?
8 cm
500
A truck whose bed is 7 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 2 feet high is delivering sand.
1) What is the volume of the truck's bed?
2) How many trips can the truck make to deliver 168 cubic feet of sand?
1) 56 ft3
2) 3 trips
500
What is the volume of this figure?
A) 3 x 3 x 12 = 108 in3
B) 5 x 5 x 5 = 125 in3
Total: 108 + 125 = 233 in3
500
Josh's first jump measured 2 yards and 4 inches. His second jump measured 3 yards and 9 inches. (1 yard = 36 inches). How much further did he jump in his second jump?
41 inches
500
A crocodile has a length of 450, however, units and decimals are missing. Help scientists put this number correctly on the chart:
_____m ----> _______cm ----> _______mm
4.5 m --> 450 cm --> 4,500 mm