Lesson 6 Problem-Solving Practice Volume of Cylinders 1. Mrs. Washington has a rain barrel with a radius of 2. The Fresh Chili Company is changing the size of their 1.25 feet and a volume of 15.9 cubic feet. Find the cans of chili. The new can needs to hold 500 cubic height of the rain barrel to the nearest tenth. centimeters of chili. The height of the can is to be 11 centimeters. What must the radius of the new can be? Round your answer to the nearest tenth. 3. job, he needs to empty wastebaskets. The 4. is shipped in boxes with 12 cans to At Peter’s Mama Rosa’s soup cylindrically shaped wastebaskets have a height of a box. Each can has a diameter of 3.5 inches and a 3 feet and a diameter of 1 feet. Peter empties the height of 5 inches. Find the volume of 12 cans of Mama wastebaskets into a dumpster that is shaped like a Rosa's soup. Round to the nearest tenth. rectangular prism. If the dumpster is 8 feet wide, 6 feet deep, and 5 feet tall, how many wastebaskets full of trash will fit in the dumpster? 5. Penny glued together wooden blocks to build the 6. A school principal ordered a podium for the debate castle shown below. Each triangular prism has the club. Find the volume of the podium. same measurements and each cylinder has the same measurements. She wants to send the castle to her cousin. She has a box which measures 15 inches long, 8 inches wide, and 15 inches tall. She plans to use popcorn to protect the castle during shipping. What volume of popcorn does Penny need?
Lesson 6 Problem-Solving Practice Volume of Cylinders 1. Mrs. Washington has a rain barrel with a radius of 1.25 feet and a volume of 15.9 cubic feet. Find the height of the rain barrel to the nearest tenth. 2. The Fresh Chili Company is changing the size of their cans of chili. The new can needs to hold 500 cubic centimeters of chili. The height of the can is to be 11 centimeters. What must the radius of the new can be? Round your answer to the nearest tenth. 3. At Peter’s job, he needs to empty wastebaskets. The cylindrically shaped wastebaskets have a height of 3 feet and a diameter of 1 feet. Peter empties the wastebaskets into a dumpster that is shaped like a rectangular prism. If the dumpster is 8 feet wide, 6 feet deep, and 5 feet tall, how many wastebaskets full of trash will fit in the dumpster? 4. Mama Rosa’s soup is shipped in boxes with 12 cans to a box. Each can has a diameter of 3.5 inches and a height of 5 inches. Find the volume of 12 cans of Mama Rosa's soup. Round to the nearest tenth. 5. Penny glued together wooden blocks to build the castle shown below. Each triangular prism has the same measurements and each cylinder has the same measurements. She wants to send the castle to her cousin. She has a box which measures 15 inches long, 8 inches wide, and 15 inches tall. She plans to use popcorn to protect the castle during shipping. What volume of popcorn does Penny need? 6. A school principal ordered a podium for the debate club. Find the volume of the podium.
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