Solve Problems with Surface Area and Volume

What is the surface area of the cube?

• 64 square millimeters

• 9 square millimeters

• 27 square millimeters

• 54 square millimeters

A cube shaped gift box has a side length of 8 in. What is its volume?

• 8 cubic inches

• 64 cubic inches

• 512 cubic inches

• 24 cubic inches

An aquarium has the dimensions, L = 18 m, W = 5 m, H = 4 m. If the aquarium is only half full, what is the volume of water in the aquarium?

• 360 cubic meters

• 180 cubic meters

• 240 cubic meters

• 720 cubic meters

Joshua is organizing a garage using stackable containers. Each container has a length of 16.5 in, a width of 24 in, and a height of 12 in. If he has 12 containers, what is the total volume of all the containers?

• 34560 cubic inches

• 144 cubic inches

• 4752 cubic inches

• 57024 cubic inches

Find the total surface area of the prism.

• 48 square inches

• 64 square inches

• 88 square inches

• 76 square inches

When finding Surface Area, what are you solving for?

• Tells us the capacity of the figure.  It is a measure of how much a figure can hold and is measured in cubic units.

• The area of such an outer part or uppermost layer.

What is surface area?

• The number of vertices on a polyhedron.

• The sum of the areas of all the faces.

• The sum of all the edge lengths.

• The amount of space inside a polyhedron.

What is surface area?

• Inside of the object

• the sum of all the areas of all the shapes that cover the surface of the object.

• Something Coach G made up?

• Surface area is what you get when you boil unicorn tears. 

Aubrey has a suitcase with a volume of 2,200 cubic inches. To organize her suitcase she would like to use organizers with a length of 10 inches, a width of 11 inches and a height of 5 inches. How many organizers can she fit in her suitcase?

• 5

• 10

• 4

• 6

You are putting in a pool at your house in the shape of a rectangular prism.  The length is 40 ft, the width is 20 ft and the 3-D height is 12 ft.  How much water will be in the pool?

• 8640 cubic feet

• 8400 cubic feet

• 8000 cubic feet

• 9600 cubic feet