Volume of Solids and Liquids
1. Find the volume of each of the following cuboids.
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e) (f)
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(g) (h)
2. Find the volume of each of the following cubes.
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e) (f)
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(g) (h)
3. Find the unknown side of each of the following cuboids.
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
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(e) (f)
4. Find the shaded area of each of the following cuboids.
(a)
(b)
(c)
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5. For each of the following cuboids, find
(i) the area of the square face,
(ii) the length of a side of the square face.
(Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places where necessary.)
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e) (f)
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6. For each of the following cubes, find
(i) the length of an edge of the cube,
(ii) the area of one of its faces.
(Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places where necessary.)
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e)
(f)
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Solve the following word problems.
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7. A rectangular container is 5 filled with liquid. If the volume of the liquid is
320ml, find the capacity of the container.
8. A rectangular container, with a base area of 360 cm2 has a height of 15
cm. Find the capacity of the container.
9. The capacity of a rectangular tank 1920 cm3. If the height of the tank is 12
cm, find the base area of the tank.
10. A rectangular container, with a base area of 360 cm2 has a height of 15
cm. Find the capacity of the container.
11. The capacity of a rectangular tank 1920 cm3. If the height of the tank is 12
cm, find the base area of the tank.
12. A solid cuboid of height 10 cm has a square base of side 4 cm. Find its
volume.
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13. The volume of the rectangular block of wood below is 300 cm3. What is
the height of the block?
14. The length of a cuboid is 10 m. Its breadth is half of its length and its
height is 6 m. Find the volume of the cuboid.
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15. The length of a rectangular tank is twice its breadth. Its breadth is of its
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height. If the height of the tank is 20 cm, find its capacity.
16. Find the volume of the cuboid below.
17. Find the volume of the cuboid below.
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18. The volume and the base area of the cuboid are 576 cm3 and 48 cm2
respectively. Find the height of the cuboid.
19. A rectangular container has a square base of side 8 cm and a height of 10
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cm. It is filled with water. Find the volume of water in the container.
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20. A rectangular tank, 60 cm long and 40 cm wide contains 72 litres of water.
Find the height of the water level in the tank.
21. A rectangular tank is half-filled with water. If the base of the tank is 12 m2
and its height is 7 m, find the volume of water in the tank.
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22. The rectangular tank below is full. If it contains 54 litres of water, find
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the height of the tank.
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23. The base area of a rectangular container is 1440 cm2. It is filled with 72
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litres of liquid and is full. Find the height of the container.
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24. A rectangular container with a square base of side 20 cm is 30% filled with
water. If it is filled with 1.2 litres of water, find the height of the container.
25. The figure below shows a cuboid with a square base of area 36 cm2. The
ratio of its breadth to its height is 2 : 3. Find the volume of the cuboid.
26. The cuboid below has a square base of area 144 cm2. The area of the
shaded face is 96 cm2. Find the volume of the cuboid.
27. The figure below shows a rectangular tank with a square base. If its base
area is 9 m2 and the area of the shaded face is 18 m2, find the height of
the tank.
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28. The volume of a cuboid is 4913 cm3. A cube has the same volume as the
cuboid. Find the length of an edge of the cube.
29. The volume of the cube shown below is 1331 cm3. Find the area of the
shaded face.
30. The area of a face of the cube shown below is 36 cm2. Find the volume of
5 such cubes.
31. The volume of a cube is 512 cm3. Find the total area of the faces of the
cube.
32. The figure shows a cube which is cut to form 3 identical cuboids. If the
volume of the cube is 5832 cm3 , find the dimension of each cuboid.
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33. The volume of Cube A is 64 cm3. The ratio of the length of Cube A to the
length of Cube B is 1 : 3. Find the volume of Cube B.
34. The volume of Cube P is 216 cm3. The ratio of the length of Cube P to the
length of Cube Q is 2 : 3. Find the volume of the Cube Q.
35. The length of Cube X is twice the length of Cube Y. If the volume of Cube
X is 2744 cm3, find the total area of the faces of Cube Y.
36. A 5-cm cube was removed from each corner of the cuboid shown below.
Find the volume of the remaining solid.
37. Find the maximum number of 3-cm cubes that can be placed into a
rectangular box measuring 25 cm by 14 cm by 20 cm.
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38. What is the maximum number of 2-cm cubes that can be packed into a
rectangular box measuring 15 cm by 7 cm by 10 cm?
39. The volume of a rectangular block of candle is 840 cm3. Its length is 14
cm and its breadth is 10 cm.
(a) Find the height of the candle.
The candle is melted down and re-moulded into 105 identical cubes.
(b) Find the length of an edge of each cube.
40. A rectangular block of wood measures 36 cm by 24 cm by 10 cm. It is cut
up into cubes of side 3 cm.
(a) Find the maximum number of cubes that can be obtained.
(b) Find the volume of wood left.
41. Marc has two rectangular boxes of different sizes. The length, breadth and
height of the larger box is twice that of the smaller box. If he can pack 20
identical cubes into the smaller box, how many such cubes can he pack
exactly into the larger box?
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42. Figure 1 shows a rectangular block of wood measuring 18 cm by 12 cm by
40 cm. Tom cuts the maximum number of 4-cm cubes from the wood.
Figure 2 shows the remaining block of wood.
(a) Find the number of 4-cm cubes he got.
(b) Find the total surface area of the remaining block of wood.
43. Ben painted the outside and base of an open rectangular box.
(a) Find the painted area.
(b) He packed the box with 1-cn cubes to fill it completely.
(i) How many cubes did he pack?
(ii) Find the number of cubes that touched the inside of the box.
35 cm
25 cm
80 cm
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44. Marc cut a rectangular Block P into two rectangular blocks of equal
heights, Q and R. The volume of Q is 6720 cm3 more than that of R.
(a) Find the height of Block P.
(b) Marc packed 6 of Block Q such that they fit exactly into a box with
a square base. The height of the box is the same as the height of
Block P. How many Block R can be packed into such a box, at most?
45. The figure below shows a rectangular tank which is filled with water up to
a height of 12 cm. Find the new height of the water level after 12 litres of
water is poured into the tank.
46. A rectangular tank X measuring 8 m by 3 m by 5 m is half-filled with water.
All the water in Tank X is poured into a cubical Tank Y of side 4 m which
is empty. Find the height of the water level in Tank Y.
Tank X
Tank Y
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47. Two rectangular tanks are shown below. Tank P contained water to half
its height. All the water from Tank P was poured into Tank Q without
spilling. Find the height of the water level in Tank Q.
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48. The figures below show two rectangular tanks. Tank M is filled with
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water and Tank N is empty. All the water in Tank M is poured into Tank N
without spilling. Find the height of the water level in Tank N.
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49. The figures show two rectangular tanks. Tank X contained water to half
its height while Tank Y was empty. Half of the water from Tank X was
poured into Tank Y without spilling. Find the height of the water level in
tank Y now.
50. The figures below show two rectangular tanks. Tank A is completely filled
with water while Tank B is half-filled with water. All the water in Tank A is
poured into Tank B without spilling. Find the new height of the water level
in Tank B.
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51. Container A is filled with water. All the water in Container A is poured
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into Container B, which is empty at first.
(a) Find the height of the water level in Container A at first.
(b) Find the height of the water level in Container B.
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