T-WORKSHEET-3

Mensuration – Surface Area and Volume of Regular Shapes

PBL

Instructions

o Within your group decide on each member’s role

o Discuss your findings within the group
o Read the following problems, understand, analyze, sketch, and solve within your
group by using the appropriate formula
o Come up with a solution and present it to the class
Time 30 Minutes

Questions:

1. Asma wants to paint her gloomy brown wooden planter box fiery red. How many square
inches will she need to paint based on the provided measurements?

2. An iron ball has a diameter of 8 cm. Find the exact volume of the iron ball and round
your answer to the nearest cubic centimeter.

3. Sara makes a cone-shaped paper filter to line a cone-shaped funnel. The funnel has a
radius of 5 inches and a height of 10 inches. Suppose Sara wants to make 15 cone-
shaped funnels to fill with popcorn. About how much amount of popcorn will she fill in
such 15 paper funnels? (Sketch figure)

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 4. The below diagram shows two fish tanks, each in the shape of a cuboid. Both tanks are
finely filled with Water. Which fish tank holds more water?

5. Suzan is serving ice cream in cone-shaped parfait glasses. The cone-shaped part of each
glass has a height of 9 cm and a diameter of 7 cm. How many cubic centimeters of ice
cream can Suzan serve if she fills 4 parfait glasses? Use π = 3.14 and round your answer
to the nearest tenth, if necessary.

6. At a big festival, one of the shops has a large cylindrical container containing orange
juice with a bottom radius of 10 cm to a height of 25 cm. Juice is filled in a small
cylindrical glass with a radius of 3 cm to a height of 6 cm. Find the number of glasses
that he can fill the juice completely in the container.

Answers:
1. 𝟗𝟔𝟎 square inches
2. 𝟐𝟔𝟖 𝐜𝐦𝟑
3. 𝟑𝟗𝟐𝟔. 𝟗𝟒 𝐢𝐧𝟑
4. Tank A holds 𝟗𝟗𝟕𝟓𝟎 𝐜𝐦𝟑 and Tank A holds 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝟑𝟕𝟓 𝐜𝐦𝟑
So, Tank B holds more than Tank A.
5. 𝟒𝟔𝟏. 𝟓𝟖 𝐜𝐦𝟑
6. 𝟒𝟔 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬

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