Find the volume and surface area of the following objects:

Worded Problems
1. A birdbath with the dimensions shown is to be
filled with water.
If the bath is filled from a container that holds
231cm3 of water, how many containers will it take
to fill the bath?

2. Lacey’s mom makes a birthday cake in the

shape of an “L”.

Lacey loves frosting, so her mom covers

the entire outside of the cake in frosting,
including the base.

How much space is covered in frosting?

3. Hassan built a fence around a square yard.

It took 500m2 of lumber to build the fence.
The fence is 5m tall.
What is the area of the yard inside the fence?

4. Erin is making a jewellery box of wood in the shape of a rectangular prism. The box measures
15 cm by 12cm by 6 cm. The cost of painting the box is $0.50 per square centimetre.
How much does Erin have to spend to paint the box?

5.
Cherise is setting up her tent.

It is in the shape of a trapezoidal

prism, with dimensions as
shown.

How many cubic metres of

space are in her tent?
6.

Allie has two aquariums

connected by a cuboid.

Find the volume of the

entire figure.

7. How many square tiles, measuring 0.2 m × 0.2 m, are needed to coat the base and sides of a pool
which is 10m long, 6m wide, and 3m deep?

8. A concrete block has a cylindrical

hole 4.2 m in diameter drilled
through it for a pipe to be placed.

How many cubic metres of concrete

are left in the block?

9.
The figure given shows a section of
metal pipe.

Given the internal radius is 2.1 cm,

the external radius is 2.8 cm, and the
length is 10 cm, find the total surface
area of the pipe.

10. The surface area of a cube is 24 cm2. Find the length of each side of the cube.

11. A cylinder with a radius of 3.5 cm has a volume of 231 cm3. Find the height of the cylinder.
12. Find the unknown lengths in the figures below:

13. James has a rectangular prism with a length of 10 cm, a width of 2 cm, and an unknown height.
He needs to build another rectangular prism with a length of 5 cm and the same height as the
original prism.
If the volume of the prisms are the same, find the width of the new prism.

14. The volume of a cylinder is 3600𝜋 cm3. If the height is 16cm, find the radius of the cylinder.

15. A can of soup has a height of 7 cm and a diameter of 7 cm. Determine

(a) the amount to metal needed to make the can
(b) the cost of manufacturing the can, if 100 cm2 costs 25₵
(c) the amount of soup the can contains.

16.
Two possible designs for a new cereal
box are shown on the right –
a cylinder of height 12 cm and diameter
of 7 cm,
and a cuboid measuring 12 cm by 7 cm
by 4 cm.

Determine which box

(a) would be cheaper to manufacture
(b) would contain less cereal.