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Grade 4 · Foundation and Higher · free GCSE maths worksheet

Volume of prisms

Cross-section area times length.

19 original questions, 66 marks. Print the worksheet, mark it with the answers sheet, and use the solutions to see every step written out by hand.

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The questions

1

A cuboid measures 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm.

Work out the volume of the cuboid.

State the units of your answer.

2 marks
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72 cm³
2

A cylinder has a radius of 5 cm and a height of 12 cm.

Work out the volume of the cylinder.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

3 marks
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942 cm³
3

The cross-section of a prism is a right-angled triangle with base 8 cm and height 5 cm.

The length of the prism is 12 cm.

Work out the volume of the prism.

8 cm5 cm12 cm
3 marks
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240 cm³
4

A cylindrical tin has a diameter of 8 cm and a height of 10 cm.

Work out the volume of the tin.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

3 marks
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503 cm³
5

A water tank is a cuboid measuring 50 cm by 40 cm by 30 cm.

  1. Work out the volume of the tank in cm3.
  2. Work out the capacity of the tank in litres. (1 litre = 1000 cm3)
3 marks
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a) 60 000 cm3 b) 60 litres
6

A cuboid has a volume of 180 cm3.

The base of the cuboid measures 6 cm by 5 cm.

Work out the height of the cuboid.

3 marks
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6 cm
7

A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 25 cm and a height of 80 cm.

Work out the number of litres of water the water butt holds when it is full.

Give your answer to the nearest litre.

1 litre = 1000 cm3

4 marks
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157 litres
8

The cross-section of a prism is a trapezium.

The parallel sides of the trapezium are 6 cm and 10 cm, and the perpendicular distance between them is 4 cm.

The length of the prism is 15 cm.

Work out the volume of the prism.

10 cm6 cm15 cm4 cmDiagram NOT accurately drawn
3 marks
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480 cm³
9

A fish tank is a cuboid 60 cm long, 25 cm wide and 30 cm high. It is filled with water to a depth of 20 cm.

The water is poured into cups. Each cup holds 250 cm3. How many cups can be filled completely?

4 marks
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120
10

The cross-section of a prism is a rectangle 10 cm by 6 cm with a smaller rectangle 4 cm by 3 cm cut out of one corner. The prism is 15 cm long.

Work out the volume of the prism.

3 marks
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720 cm3
11

A swimming pool is a cuboid 25 m long, 10 m wide and 1.6 m deep. It is filled at a rate of 20 m3 per hour.

How many hours does it take to fill the pool completely?

3 marks
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20 hours
12

A water tank is a cuboid measuring 1.5 m by 0.8 m by 0.6 m.

The tank is empty. Dev fills the tank completely with water.

Water costs £1.25 for every 100 litres.

Work out the cost of the water needed to fill the tank.

1 m3 = 1000 litres

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£9.00
13

The cross-section of a prism is a right-angled triangle.

The hypotenuse of the triangle is 13 cm and one of the shorter sides is 5 cm.

The length of the prism is 20 cm.

Work out the volume of the prism.

5 cm20 cm13 cm
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600 cm³
14

A cuboid has a length of 8 cm and a width of 5 cm. Its volume is 280 cm3.

  1. Work out the height of the cuboid.
  2. Work out the total surface area of the cuboid.
4 marks
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a) 7 cm b) 262 cm2
15

A cylindrical tank has a radius of 30 cm and a height of 80 cm. It is filled with water from a tap at 12 litres per minute.

How long does it take to fill the tank? Give your answer in minutes, to 1 decimal place. (1 litre = 1000 cm3)

3 marks
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18.8 minutes
16

A solid metal cube has sides of 6 cm. It is melted down and made into a cuboid with a square base of side 4 cm.

Work out the height of the cuboid.

3 marks
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13.5 cm
17

A cylindrical tub has a radius of 12 cm and a height of 20 cm. It is filled with a mixture of squash and water. The squash and water are in the ratio 1 : 9 by volume.

How many millilitres of squash are needed? Give your answer to 3 significant figures. (1 cm3 = 1 ml)

3 marks
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905 ml
18

The cross-section of a prism is an L-shape.

The L-shape is made by starting with a rectangle 12 cm wide and 9 cm tall, then removing a 7 cm by 5 cm rectangle from the top right corner.

The length of the prism is 24 cm.

Show that the volume of the prism is 1752 cm3.

12 cm7 cm5 cm9 cm24 cmDiagram NOT accurately drawn
5 marks
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Cross-section area = 12 × 9 - 7 × 5 = 108 - 35 = 73 cm²; volume = 73 × 24 = 1752 cm³
19

A prism has a cross-section that is a right-angled triangle. The base of the triangle is 9 cm and the angle between the base and the hypotenuse is 35°. The prism is 12 cm long.

Work out the volume of the prism. Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

4 marks
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340 cm3

Every question here is original and written by Robinson Tuition. The grade follows the Edexcel grade descriptors and suits AQA and OCR too; this is not an exam-board paper.

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