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100

The volume of a cone that has a radius of 5 inches and a height of 12 inches. Round pi to 3.14.

314 in.3

100
The volume of a cylinder whose radius is 4 feet and whose height is 3 feet. V= πr^2h
What is 150.72 ft cubed?
100
The volume of a sphere with a radius of 5 feet. V=4/3πr^3
What is 523.3 feet?
100

Skylar lives on a farm where his dad keeps a circular corn maze. The corn maze has a diameter of 2 kilometers. What is the maze’s radius?

1 kilometer

100

There are 235 books in a library. On Monday, 123 books are taken out. On Tuesday, 56 books are brought back. How many books are there now?

168 books

200

You get a snow cone at the fair. The paper cone you get has an opening of 2 inches in diameter and is 5 inches tall. It is really hot outside and your snow cone melts! What is the approximate volume of the melted sugar water in your paper cone? Round pi to 3.14. Round to the nearest tenth.

5.2 in.3

200
The volume of a cylinder whose radius is 4.8 inches and has a height of 14.7 inches.
What is 1063.48 cubic inches?
200
The volume of a sphere whose diameter is 8cm.
What is 267.95 cubic centimeters?
200
Solve: 15 less than the product of 8 and 9.
What is 57?
200
The value of 4 cubed
What is 64?
300

The volume of a cone whose height is 7.8mm and whose diameter is 6.4mm. Round pi to 3.14. Round to the nearest tenth.

83.6 mm3

300
Emma Stone decides to start saving water by collecting rain in a barrel. Emma Stone buys a barrel 2 feet across and 3.5 feet tall. What is the total volume of rain that Emma Stone can collect?
What is 10.99 cubic feet?
300
Selena Gomez is out for a hike when she stumbles upon an asteroid half-imbedded in the ground. The asteroid is almost perfectly spherical and is 37 feet in diameter. What is the volume of Selena Gomez's asteroid?
What is 26508.4 cubic feet?
300
Solve the equation: 3(2n-5)=10n-3
What is n=-3?
300
List the Order of Operations (not just the letters!)
What is Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, and Addition/Subtraction PEMDAS
400

You visit two ice cream shops, and both have delicious waffle cones. They both charge the same amount for the cones, but they are different sizes. Shop A's cones are 3 inches in diameter and 8 inches tall. Shop B's cones are 2.5 inches in diameter and 9 inches tall. Which shop gives you more ice cream?

What is shop A?

400
Disney has built a new cylindrical office building at its headquarters in Burbank, California, and they are negotiating the window washing contract. Window washing companies typically charge $0.05 per square foot. Given that the tower is 400 feet tall and 200 feet across, about how much will it cost Disney to clean the windows?
What is $628,000?
400
In the summers, Michael Phelps runs an ice cream parlor in Hull, MA. Michael Phelps orders ice cream in cylindrical cartons that are 10 centimeters in diameter and 15 centimeters tall. Using a scoop that is 4 centimeters in diameter, how many (perfectly spherical) scoops will Michael Phelps get out of each carton?
What is 35 scoops?
400

What is 0.48 written as a fraction in simplest terms?

What is 12/25?

400

At lunchtime, an ice cream parlor served 6 ¼ scoops of chocolate ice cream, 5 ¾ scoops of vanilla and 2 ¾ scoops of strawberry. How many scoops of ice cream did the parlor serve in total?

14 ¾ scoops of ice cream

500

What is the height of a cone whose volume is 307.72 centimeters and has a radius of 7 centimeters?

The height is 6 cm.

500
Bruce Wayne is playing outside when he discovers a cylindrical well about 5 feet across. Bruce is not sure how deep it is, so he decides to get a hose and fill it up. Bruce's hose can deliver 100 cubic feet of water every hour. About how many vertical feet would Bruce fill in one hour?
What is a height of 5ft?
500
This is the radius of a sphere whose volume is 113.04 ft cubed.
What is 3 feet?
500

A gym membership at gym A charges an initial fee of $100 and then a $25 fee every month. Gym B charges a flat fee of $45 every month. After how many months will the cost for both memberships be the same?

What is 5 months?

500

Find the volume of a cone having a radius 0.35 times its height. The height of the cone is 20 meters. Use 3.14 to represent pi. Round to the nearest hundredth.

1025.73

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