Volume of Cones
Volume of Cylinders
Riddles
100

Find the volume of a cone that has a 2 meter diameter and a height of 8 meters.

8.37 m3

100

Find the volume of a cylinder with height of 5 cm and a radius of 4cm.

251.20 cm3

100

I'm tall when I'm young, and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?

A candle.

200

Find the volume of a cone with height of 15 cm and a diameter of 12 cm.

565.2 cm3

200

A can of frozen orange juice measures 6 inches in height, and 2 inches in diameter. How much orange juice is inside? 

18.84 in3 of orange juice.

200

Who has hands but cannot clap?

A clock.

300
A paper cone that holds water is 8 inches tall and has a diameter of 5 inches. How many cubic inches of water will this cone hold?

52.33 in3

300

A big oil tank measures 24 ft tall, and has a diameter of 30 ft. How much cubic feet of oil does this tank hold?

16,956 ft3

300

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

A mushroom.

400

A clown was ordering a Gucci party hat on Amazon. The hat was cone shaped and measured 10 inches in height with a radius of 4 inches. How much water can that clown hat hold?

167.47 in3

400

A large can full of fresh smelling tuna measured 4 inches in diameter and 2.5 inches in height. How much tuna does the can hold?

31.4 in3

400

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

Incorrectly.

500

A cone that holds water has a volume of 3000 cm3. There is a bag of smaller cones that hold 30 cm3 of water. How many smaller cones can be filled with water using the big cone?

100 cones (cups) of water.

500
A swimming pool needs to be filled. It has a volume of 4,000 gallons. A truck with a cylindrical tank of water comes and fills the pool. The tank holds 250 gallons of water? How many trips need to be made to fill the pool?
Exactly 16 trips.
500

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

A window.