Rectangular Prism Volume
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100

Fred has a cube that is 5 cm by 5 cm. Find the third side.

What is 5 cm?

100

The generic units used to measure volume.

What is a cubic unit?

100

The volume of a rectangular prism.

What is length x width x height?

200

Fred has a rectangular house with a flat roof. It is 10 yards long, 5 yards wide, and 3 yards tall. Find the total volume. 

What is 150 cubic yards?

200

Length x Width x Height

What is how to measure volume?

200

The dimension found by dividing volume by area.

What is height?

300

Fred has a box of cereal. The total volume is 160 cubic inches. The length is 8 inches and height is 10 inches. Find width.

What is 2 inches?

300

The amount of 3-D space something takes up.

What is volume?

300

Solve for length: volume 200 cubic units / width is 10 units / height is 5 units.

What is length is 4 units.

400

Fred needs to know how many building blocks fit in his toy box. The toy box is 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 2 feet tall. The building block are 1 cubic foot. Find the number of blocks that will fit in his toy box.

What are 16 building blocks?

400

A rectangular prism with sides all the same length.

What is a cube?

400

Grandma has 2 different shaped kleenex boxes. One has a volume of 50 cubic units. The other measures width 2 units, height 5 units, and length 10 units. Find the combined volume of both.

What is 150 cubic units?

500

Fred's sister, Frederica, has a doll house with two floors and an attic. The first two floors measure 10 in by 10 in by 5 in each. The attic has a slanted roof so it looks like a triangular prism. It also measures 10 in long by 10 in wide and the point of the ceiling measures 5 inches tall. Find the total volume of the doll house.

What is 1250 cubic inches?

500

The bottom layer of a shape sometimes used to assist in finding volume.

What is base area?

500

Mr Smyth has an aquarium and he knows the volume is 20,000 cubic feet. As a visitor you can see the length is 20 feet and the height is 10 feet. Find the width of Mr Smyth's aquarium.

What is 100 feet?

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