Grade 8 | Unit 5 | Lesson 13: The Volume of a Cylinder | Practice Problems

Sketch a cylinder. Label its radius 3 and its height 10. Shade in one of its bases.

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CCSS.8.G.C.9

CCSS.HSG.GMD.A.3

At a farm, animals are fed bales of hay and buckets of grain. Each bale of hay is in the shape a rectangular prism. The base has side lengths 2 feet and 3 feet, and the height is 5 feet. Each bucket of grain is a cylinder with a diameter of 3 feet. The height of the bucket is 5 feet, the same as the height of the bale. Which is larger in area, the rectangular base of the bale or the circular base of the bucket? Explain how you know.

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CCSS.7.G.B.6

At a farm, animals are fed bales of hay and buckets of grain. Each bale of hay is in the shape a rectangular prism. The base has side lengths 2 feet and 3 feet, and the height is 5 feet. Each bucket of grain is a cylinder with a diameter of 3 feet. The height of the bucket is 5 feet, the same as the height of the bale. Which is larger in volume, the bale or the bucket? Explain how you know.

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CCSS.8.G.C.9

CCSS.HSG.GMD.A.3

Three cylinders have a height of 8 cm. Cylinder 1 has a radius of 1 cm. Cylinder 2 has a radius of 2 cm. Cylinder 3 has a radius of 3 cm. Find the volume of each cylinder.

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CCSS.8.G.C.9

CCSS.HSG.GMD.A.3

A one-quart container of tomato soup is shaped like a rectangular prism. A soup bowl shaped like a hemisphere can hold 8 oz of liquid. How many bowls will the soup container fill? Recall that 1 quart is equivalent to 32 fluid ounces (oz).

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

• approximately 314 square units

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CCSS.7.G.B.4

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CCSS.8.EE.B.5

Two students join a puzzle solving club and get faster at finishing the puzzles as they get more practice. Student A improves their times faster than Student B. Which student was faster at puzzle solving before practice?

• Student A

• Student B

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CCSS.8.F.A.2

CCSS.HSF.IF.C.9