Volume Story Problems

An ice cube tray measures 4.5x3x8 inches. How many 1x1x1 inch ice cubes could fit in the tray? (Hint: Find the volume of the tray, the volume of one ice cube and divide!)

• 99 ice cubes

• no ice cubes

• 108 ice cubes

• 44 ice cubes

Hope has a box in the shape of a right rectangular prism that measures 3 feet by 2.5 feet by 0.75 feet. She fills half of the box with packing material. How much space inside the box is filled with packing material? (Hint: find HALF of the total volume)

• 5.625 ft³

• 2.8125 ft³

• 48 ft³

• none of the above

Barb filled up a moving truck with cube-shaped boxes. The truck had a total volume of 960ft³. If each box had the dimensions: 2ftx2ft2ft, how many total boxes could fit in the truck?

• 120 boxes

• 8ft

• 8 boxes

• 120ft

Joy wants to create a box with a volume of 8 cubic units. Which dimensions would work?

• length: 8 units
  width: 8 units
  height: 8 units
• length: 2 units
  width 4 units
  height: 3 units
• length: 4 units
  width: 2 units
  height: 2 units
• length: 2 units
  width: 4 units
  height: 1 unit

Tags

CCSS.5.MD.C.5B

CCSS.6.G.A.2

Find the volume of the prism.

• 4

• 16

• 6

• 8

Tags

CCSS.5.MD.C.5A

CCSS.6.G.A.2

Sam is using this box to pack books.  He needs to know the volume so he can figure out how many books to pack.
Which expression below would Sam use to find the volume of the box?

• 3 + 4 + 5
• 3 + 4 x 5
• 3 x 4 + 5
• 3 x 4 x 5

Tags

CCSS.5.MD.C.3A

CCSS.5.MD.C.3B

CCSS.5.MD.C.4

What is the volume of this prism ?

• 3/8 in²

• 1/8 in ³

• 1/16 in ³

• 3/16 in ³

Tags

CCSS.7.EE.B.3

Find the volume of this prism:

• 4 2/7 yds³

• 10/7 yds³

• 30/343 yds³

• 68 yds³

Tags

CCSS.7.EE.B.3