Developing an understanding of volume

Jorge wants to find out many cubes will fill the box. He stacks some cubes in the box as shown. What is the total volume of the box.

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How many 1/4 cm cubes would be in 4 cm?

• 1

• 8

• 16

• 9

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If the dimensions of a shipping box is 12 units x 6 units x 4 units, how many unit cubes can fit within the box?

• 288
• 120
• 72
• 244

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Find the volume of the rectangular prism. How many unit cubes would it take to make the rectangular prism?

(The small cube just shows what one cubic unit looks like inside this rectangular prism, it is not a separate part.)

• 45 cubic units

• 13 square units

• 48 cubic units

• 24 cubic units

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What is the volume of this prism?

• 16 cubic cm

• 12 cubic cm

• 48 cubic cm

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Penelope packed 16 centimeter cubes in a box. Which could be the dimensions of the box? Select ALL that apply.

• 1 x 2 x 2

• 1 x 2 x 4

• 4 x 2 x 1

• 4 x 2 x 2

• 8 x 2 x 1

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Emily has a box shaped like a rectangular prism that is full of sugar cubes.

* Each sugar cube has a volume of 1 cubic centimeter.

* The top layer has a width of 6 cm and a length of 11 cm.

* There are 3 layers of sugar cubes.

How many sugar cubes are in the box?

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The shaded cube has a volume of 1 cubic unit. Cubes like this one will be used to completely fill a rectangular prism that has the dimensions shown. How many of these shaded cubes will be needed to completely fill the rectangular prism?

• 48

• 80

• 160

• not here

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Tom and Jerry were loading the cargo area of their cartoon truck with cube-shaped cheese blocks. Each cheese block was cube-shaped with a side length of one foot. The diagram shows the cargo area of the truck.

b. Based on the diagram, how many layers of 1-cubic foot cheese blocks will it take to fill the cargo area of the truck?

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Find the volume.

• 15 cm
• 60 cm ³
• 15 cm ³
• 3,600 cm ³

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