Volume with Pictures
Volume with Pictures 2
Word Problems 1
Volume Challenge
100

V = 20 cubic units 

100

What is the volume of the rectangular prism?

24 cubic units

100

What operation do you use to find the volume of a rectangular prism? 

Multiplication 

100

What is volume? 

  1. The amount of space in a 2D figure 

  2. The area of a figure 

  3. The amount of space in a 3D figure

  4. The length x width of a figure 

The amount of space in a 3D object. 

200

V = 18 cubic units 

200

What is the volume of this rectangular prism? 

16 cubic units

200

Rebecca places plastic building cubes into a box shaped like a rectangular prism. She completely covers the bottom of the box with a layer of 9 cubes. If the height of the box is 3 cubes, what is its volume? 


27 cubic units 

200

What formulas can you use to find the volume of a rectangular prism? 

Base x height = volume 

Length x width x height = volume 

300

V = 16 cubic units 

300

Which figure has a greater volume? You must explain your answer by finding the volume of both.


Figure 2 because it has a volume of 27 cubic units and Figure 1 has a volume of 24 cubic units. 

300

A bookshelf holds boxes of puzzles. The shelf has a height of 3 feet. Six puzzles will completely cover the bottom layer of the shelf. What is the total volume of space taken up by the puzzle boxes?


18 cubic feet

300

The base of a rectangular prism has a volume of 10 cubic units and the height is 3 cubic units. What is the volume? 

30 cubic units 

400

V = 30 cubic units 

400

What expression can be used to find the volume of the BASE of this rectangular prism?


4 x 2

400

A truck is holding packages that are shaped like rectangular prisms. The truck has a height of 10 feet. If the floor of the truck was completely covered with a layer of 80 boxes, what is the truck's volume?


Volume= 800 cubic feet 

400

The base of a rectangular prism is 9 cubic units and there are 5 layers. What is the volume of the prism? 

45 cubic units 

500

What would be the volume if this was a COMPLETED rectangular prism?


18 cubic units

500

If I had a picture of a rectangular prism that has a length of 3 cubes, a width of 4 cubes, and a height of 2 cubes, what is one possible expression we could use to find the volume?

3 x 4 x 2

12 x 2

500

Connor builds robots with cube-shaped connecting blocks. Each block has a volume of one cubic inch, and Connor keeps them in a box so he doesn't lose them. The box is shaped like a rectangular prism. Connor can completely cover the bottom of the box with a layer of 15 blocks. What is the volume of the box if it takes 3 layers of blocks to fill it?

45 cubic units 

500

The base of a rectangular prism has 12 cubic units and the height is 9 cubic units. What is the volume? 

108 cubic units 

600

What is the volume of this irregular figure?


40 cubic units

600

V = 216 cubic inches 

600

A fish tank is 10 inches wide by 9 inches long by 10 inches high. 

How many cubic inches of water will be in the fish tank?

Volume= 900 cubic inches 


600

The bottom layer of this rectangular prism is made of 16 unit cubes. The bottom layer is in the shape of a square prism. Nine MORE layers of unit cubes are added on TOP of the bottom layer.

What is the volume on the completed prism? 

160 cubic units 

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