Volume - math word problems

  1. Building base
    base_of_building Excavation for the building base is 350x600x26000. Calculate its volume in m3.
  2. Pumps 3
    pump_water Two pumps of the same power fill the garden pool for 10 hours. How many of these pumps would have to use if we want to shorten the filling of the pool to four hours?
  3. Water well
    studna Drilled well has a depth 20 meters and 0.1 meters radius. How many liters of water can fit into the well?
  4. Volume from surface area
    cube_3 What is the volume of the cube whose surface area is 96 cm2?
  5. Tray
    vanicka Wjat height reach water level in the tray shaped a cuboid, if it is 420 liters of water and bottom dimensions are 120 cm and 70 cm.
  6. Rhombus base
    paral_prism Calculate the volume and surface area of prisms whose base is a rhombus with diagonals u1 = 12 cm and u2 = 10 cm. Prism height is twice base edge length.
  7. For thinkings
    glass_cubes The glass cube dive into the aquarium, which has a length of 25 cm, width 20 cm and height of 30 cm. Aquarium water rises by 2 cm. a) What is the volume of a cube? b) How many centimeters measure its edge?
  8. Rotary cylinder 2
    cylinder_2 Base circumference of the rotary cylinder has same length as its height. What is the surface area of cylinder if its volume is 250 dm3?
  9. Concrete tank
    beton How many m3 of concrete is in the tank shape of a cuboid with dimensions of 2000 cm and 5.6 meters and 70 dm, if the concrete takes up 3/7 of the tank?
  10. Hollow sphere
    sphere_2 Steel hollow sphere floats on the water plunged into half its volume. Determine the outer radius of the sphere and wall thickness, if you know that the weight of the sphere is 0.5 kg and density of steel is 7850 kg/m3
  11. Swimming pool 4
    bazen_1 The pool shaped cuboid measuring 12.5 m × 640 cm at the bottom is 960hl water. To what height in meters reaches the water level?
  12. Pot
    valec_hrnec Calculate the height of 3 liter pot with shape cylinder with a diameter of 10 cm.
  13. Surface area
    cone_slice The volume of a cone is 1000 cm3 and the content area of the axis cut is 100 cm2. Calculate the surface area of the cone.
  14. Water level
    grp-gridimage-77cb37 The glass container has a cuboid shape with dimensions of the bottom 24 cm and 12 cm. The height of water is 26 cm. Calculate the volume of the body, which are sunk into the water if the water level rise by 3 cm.
  15. Cube basics
    krychle_2 How long is the edge length of a cube with volume 15 m3?
  16. Giant coin
    1cent From coinage metal was produced giant coin and was applied so much metal, such as production of 10 million actual coins. What has this giant coin diameter and thickness, if the ratio of diameter to thickness is the same as a real coin, which has a diamete
  17. Cuboid
    kvadr Find the cuboid that has the same surface area as the volume.
  18. Iron fence
    fe One field of iron fence consists of 20 iron rods with square cross-section of 1.5 cm side and a long 1 meter. How much weight a field if the density of iron is 7800 kg/m3.
  19. Chemical parison
    banka_1.JPG The blown parison (with shape of a sphere) have a volume 1.5 liters. What is its surface?
  20. Flowerbed
    5928-vyvyseny-zahon-2 Flowerbed has the shape of a truncated pyramid, the bottom edge of the base a = 10 m, the upper base b = 9 m. Deviation angle between edge and the base is alpha = 45°. What volume is needed to make this flowerbed? How many plants can be planted if 1 m2 =

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