Volume of prisms and cylinders worksheet for Pre-Algebra
In Pre-Algebra volume is the area of the base times the height: length times width times height for a rectangular prism, pi r² times height for a cylinder. The units are cubed, which is how a volume answer looks different from an area.
Also taught in Geometry, at its own level and with its own examples.
Not quite the one you need? Same words, different skill:
Using the diameter as the radius. If the problem gives the diameter, halve it before squaring.
Also called volume of a triangular prism.
What you can put on this worksheet
Volume of a cylinder
Work out the volume of the cylinder. — a cylinder with radius 7 and height 6→ 294π
Surface area of a cylinder
Find the total surface area of a cylinder with radius 7 and height 6.→ 182π
Volume of a prism
Find the volume. — a rectangular prism 7 by 8 by 6→ 336
Surface area of a prism
Find the surface area. — a rectangular prism 7 by 8 by 6→ 292
Trapezoidal, pentagonal and hexagonal prisms
Find the volume. The base is a regular hexagon. — a regular hexagonal prism, labeled 6, 5.2, 8→ 748.8
Solids with a hole
A pipe is 4 long. Its outer radius is 8 and its inner radius is 6. Find the volume of material in the pipe, exactly.→ 112π
Volume of a triangular prism
A prism is 10 long, and its base is a right triangle with legs 7and 8. Find the volume.→ 280
Questions about these worksheets
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Pre-Algebra is usually taken around 7th or 8th grade, though schools vary and plenty of students meet it earlier or later. Pick the difficulty rather than the grade: the easy level suits a first lesson on it, the hard level suits review before a test.
Yes, as many as you like. The questions are built fresh each time rather than picked from a fixed set of files, so pressing Generate gives a new sheet. That is what you want for a second class, a retake, or two students sitting next to each other.
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Yes. There are three levels, and you can tick more than one for a sheet that mixes them, in which case the questions come out easiest first. The harder levels are not just larger numbers: they ask for something the easy ones do not.
You pick from 7: volume of a cylinder, surface area of a cylinder, volume of a prism, surface area of a prism, trapezoidal, pentagonal and hexagonal prisms, solids with a hole and volume of a triangular prism. Tick as many as you want and set how many of each, or let it spread them evenly.
Using the diameter where the formula wants the radius. Every one of these formulas takes the radius, and putting the diameter in makes the volume four times too big.