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UNIT 14 VOLUME

1. POLYHEDRA

A. Key activities

1. Which of the following shapes are polyhedra and which are not? Explain why each of
the shapes is or is not a polyhedron.


a) Its a polyhedron because all its faces are flat

2. Some of the following shapes are prisms. Identify and describe each shape.



b) Its a rectangle-based prism or cuboid. Its bases and its lateral faces are
rectangles.

3. Explain why a cuboid is a prism.
A cuboid is a prism because its lateral faces are ___________ and it has two
___________ which are also rectangles.

4. Draw a prism whose base is a regular hexagon with all its parts. Draw its net too,
indicating also its parts.

5. Draw a pentagonal-based prism with all its parts. Draw its net too, indicating also its
parts.

6. Draw a pyramid whose base is a regular pentagon with all its parts. Draw its net too,
indicating also its parts.

7. Draw a hexagonal-based pyramid with all its parts. Draw its net too, indicating also
its parts.

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8. Which of the following shapes are pyramids and which are not? Identify and describe
the shapes.



b) Its a square-based pyramid. Its base is a square. Its 4 lateral faces are
triangles that meet at a common vertex, called apex.

9. Study the following polyhedra and label the regular ones:

a) Its a regular polyhedron. Its four faces are equilateral triangles. Three faces
meet at each vertex.

10. Make a table describing the following polyhedra (what faces are, number of faces,
number of edges, number of vertices).


2. NON-POLYHEDRA

A. Key activities

11. Which of the following objects are solids of revolution? Name them.


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12. Draw a cylinder with all its parts. Draw its net too, indicating also its parts.

13. Explain why the following nets do or do not belong to cylinders.


14. Draw a cone with all its parts. Draw its net too, indicating also its parts.

15. For each of the following cones, two of the three parts (radius, generatrix and
height) are known. Calculate the value of the unknown one.


16. Draw a sphere with all its parts. Draw its net too, indicating also its parts.

17. Using the words cylinder, cone and sphere describe the following solids.


18. For the following solids:


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a) Which are polyhedra? Name the prisms and the pyramid.
b) Which are solids of revolution? Name them.
c) Is there anyone that its neither polyhedron nor solid of revolution?

3. VOLUME

A. Key activities

19. Find the volume of the 3D shape of the following figure
14 cm
3



20. Find the volume of the following 3D shapes, taking one cube as the unit of volume

a) 8 cubes b) 27 cubes

21. Calculate the volume of the following figure when one cube is one dm
3

33 dm
3



22. Calculate the volume of the cuboid in the figure if dimensions are in cm. 18 cm
3


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23. Calculate the volume of the following cuboids:

a) 4 dm, 2 dm and 7 dm 56 dm
3

b) 0,5 dm, 25 cm and 1 dm 1,25 dm
3

c) 0,07 m, 0,8 dm and 4,25 cm 0,238 dm
3

d) 8 m, 80 dm and 800 cm 512000 dm
3


24. Find the volume of the boxes of the figure:

a) 16 cm
3
b) 18 m
3


25. Find the volume of the following polyhedra when dimensions are in cm.

a) 534,492 cm
3
b) 12 cm
3


26. The base of a prism is a regular hexagon with side 7 cm and apothem 6,06 cm. Find
the volume of the prism knowing that its height is 10 cm. 1272,6 cm
3


27. The area of the base of this prism is 226,16 cm
2
. Calculate its volume. 1809,28 cm
3




28. Find the volume of the following prism. 25 cm
3



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29. Find the volume of a pyramid whose base is a square with a side of 5 cm, being its
height the triple of the side of the base. 125 cm
3


30. Calculate the volume of the pyramid in the figure. 40 cm
3



31. The base of the pyramid in the figure is a square. Find its volume. 53,33 cm
3



32. Calculate the volume of a tower in Miguelturra whose base is a regular hexagon.
The apothem is 1,72 m while the side is 2 m. The height of the pyramid is 6 m 20,64 m
3


33. Calculate the volume of the following cylinders when dimensions are in cm.

a) 197,82 cm
3
b) 157 cm
3


34. Calculate the volume of the following cylinders:

a) h = 8 cm and r = 50 mm 628 cm
3

b) h = 20 cm and r = 1 dm 6280 cm
3

c) h = 2,5 dm and r = 15 cm 17662,5 cm
3


35. To build the basement of a house a cylinder with a diameter of 6 m and a height of 5
m has been built. Calculate its volume. 141,3 m
3



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36. Calculate the volume of the following cylinders when dimensions are in cm.

a) 261,67 cm
3
b) 50,24 cm
3


37. Calculate the volume of the following cones:

a) h = 0,5 dm and r = 1 cm 5,233 cm
3

b) h = 20 cm and r = 1 dm 2093,333 cm
3


38. The height of a cone-shaped tower is 3/5 of its diameter, being this 8 m. Find the
volume of the tower. 80,384 m
3


39. Calculate the volume of the spheres in the figure, dimensions being in m.

a) 33,493 m
3
b) 1259,194 m
3


40. The diameter of the official football ball for the next World Cup in Brazil is 22,3
cm. Find its volume in dm
3
. 5,8 dm
3


41. Calculate the volume of the sphere in the figure 113,973 cm
3



42. Calculate the volume in cm
3
of the spheres whose radius is:

a) 1,1 cm 5,572 cm
3
b) 1,5 dm 14130 cm
3
c) 0,05 m 523,33 cm
3


43. The diameter of a sphere is 0,5 m. Find its capacity in liters. 67,417 l

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B. Excellence activities

44. The base if the pyramid in the figure is a rectangle, being one side twice the other
one. Find its volume. 72 cm
3



45. The diameter of a cylinder-shaped glass is 4,5 cm while its height is 5 cm. How
many glasses can be filled out of a 1,5 liters bottle? 18 glasses

46. Find the amount of material used to build the 3D shape in the figure. 6280 cm
3




47. Find the volume of a cone whose generatrix is 25 cm long and its diameter is 18 cm.
1977,069 cm
3


48. En un recinto ferial se ha instalado una carpa, siendo la parte inferior cilndrica y la
superior cnica. El dimetro de la parte cilndrica mide 30 m y su altura 10 m. la altura
de la parte cnica es de 8 m. Cul es el volumen del circo? 8949m
3


49. Have a look at the following figures and make an estimation about which one has a
bigger volume. Then check your estimation calculating its volumes.

Vc = 1 m
3
Vs = 0,523 m
3


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50. The radius of the Earth is 6369 km and the radius of the Moon is 1738 km. How
many times is bigger the volume of the Earth? 49,2 times

51. En los siguientes envases Andrea ha decidido poner su capacidad y su volumen.
Para ello ha elaborado unas etiquetas que hay que pegar en el hueco en blanco que hay
en cada uno de ellos. Colcalas.



52. Las medidas de las siguientes figuras estn dadas en cm. Borja y Ariadna calcularon
su volumen en el folio que hay escrito al lado, pero ahora no saben cul corresponde a
cada una de ellas. Aydales y escribe debajo de cada figura su volumen
correspondiente.