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1.08 Volume of prisms and pyramids

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Volume and capacity of prisms
1

Find the volume of the following prisms:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
2

What operation is required to convert cubic centimetres to cubic metres?

3

Find the volume of the following boxes in cubic centimetres.

a

A box is 1 \text{ m} long, 20 \text{ cm} high and 30\text{ cm} wide.

b

A box is 2\text{ m} long, 40\text{ cm} high and 50\text{ cm} wide.

4

A container has the shape of a rectangular prism, with the following dimensions: 50 \text{ cm}, 80 \text{ cm}, and 20 \text{ cm}. Find its volume.

5

Locker A is 40 \text{ cm} long, 30 \text{ cm} wide and 160 \text{ cm} tall. Locker B is 45 \text{ cm} long, 30 \text{ cm} wide and 145 \text{ cm} tall. Which locker has the most storage?

6

A box of tissues is in the shape of a rectangular prism. It measures 19 \text{ cm} by 39 \text{ cm} by 11 \text{ cm}.

a

Find the volume of the box.

b

A supermarket owner wants to arrange a number of tissues boxes on a shelf such that there are no gaps between the boxes or at either end of the shelf. If the shelf at the supermarket is 95 \text{ cm} long, find the maximum number of tissues boxes that can be organised in this way.

7

Calculate the volume of a single sheet of paper, given that a pile of 500 sheets of paper measures 230\text{ mm} wide, 298\text{ mm} long and 30\text{ mm} tall.

8

Find the capacity of the fish tank in litres:

9

Find the capacity of the following in litres:

a

A cubic tank with side length 29 \text{ cm}.

b

A rectangular swimming pool with a length of 27 \text{ m}, width of 14 \text{ m} and depth of 3 \text{ m}.

10

For each of the following containers, find:

i

The volume

ii

The capacity

a

A container shaped like a rectangular prism with dimensions 30\text{ cm} \times 80\text{ cm} \times 10\text{ cm}.

b

A container shaped like a rectangular prism with dimensions 50\text{ cm} \times 65\text{ cm} \times 20\text{ cm}.

11

A medical refrigerator used to store containers has dimensions 65\text{ cm} \times 52\text{ cm} \times 26\text{ cm}. The containers have dimensions 50\text{ mm} \times 40\text{ mm} \times 20\text{ mm}.

a

Find the volume of one of the containers.

b

Find the volume of the fridge in cubic millimetres.

c

How many containers can be stored in the fridge?

12

The roof of a house is flat and measures 16 \text{ m} by 15 \text{ m} in the shape of a rectangle.

a

What is the area of the roof?

b

If a water tank collects all the water from the roof, how many litres of water would it collect if there had been 20 \text{ mm} of rain?

c

After the water tank has become full, a further 10 \text{ mm} of rain falls from the roof. How many litres of rainfall are not collected as a result?

13

The outline of a trapezium-shaped block of land is pictured on the right:

During a heavy storm, 63\text{ mm} of rain fell over the block of land.

Find the volume of water that landed on the property in litres.

Volume of pyramids
14

Find the volume of the following pyramids. Round your answers to two decimal places where necessary.

a
b
c
d
e
f
15

A paperweight is in the shape of a square pyramid with dimensions as shown. The paperweight is filled with solid glass.

Find the volume of glass needed to make 3000 paperweights.

16

The Great Pyramid in Egypt has a square base of side length 230 \text{ m} and a vertical height of 146 \text{ m}. Find the volume of the Great Pyramid correct to one decimal place.

17

A right pyramid has a square base of 24 \text{ mm} and a perpendicular height of 24 \text{ mm}. Find the volume of the pyramid.

18

A pyramid with a height of 7 \text{ m} has a right-angled triangular base with side lengths 6 \text{ m}, 8 \text{ m} and 10 \text{ m}. Find the volume of the pyramid.

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