What I Know
Directions: Read and answer the word problems. Write the letter of the
correct answer on a separate sheet
LESSON
SOLVING PROBLEM INVOLVING
THE VOLUME OF A
RECTANGULAR PRISM
The cabinet measures 70 cm long, 40 cm wide and 170 cm high.
What is the volume?
What's In
1. What is asked in the problem?
a volume of cabinet
b. area of the cabinet
a width of the cabinet
d. height of the cabinet
Directions: Given the dimensions below, find the volume of the following
rectangular prisms.
2. L = 8 cm
1. L = 5 cm
3. L = 7 m
5. L = 9 cm
4. L = 9 cm
W= 4 cm
W = 6 cm
W= 5 m
W= 3 cm W= 6 cm
H = 3 cm H = 7 cm H = 4 m
H = 2 cm H = 3 cm
V=
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V =
V=
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2 What are the given facts?
a 70 m, 40 m, 170 m
b. 70 dm L, 40 dm W, 170 dm H
a 70 cm long, 40 cmn wide, 170 con high
d. 70 dm, 40 dm, 170 dm
What's New
3. What is the answer?
a 47 600 cm b. 476 000 cm3 C 47 000 cm
Directions: Let us try to answer the given problem
d. 4700 cm
A wooden cube has a volume of 1 000 cm. How many 8 corre
can you cut from it? What is the shape of the wooden cube?
Jona gave her mother a diamond ring as her gift for the Mother's
Day. Since the ring was so expensive, she placed it in a jewelry box
which measures 12 cm long, 8 cm wide, and 6 cm high. What is the
volume of the jewelry box?
4. What are the given facts in the problern?
a 1000 cm and 8 cm
a 1000 m and 8 m
b. 1 000 dm and 8 dm
d. 1 000 inches and 8 inches
What is It
5. What is the correct answer?
a. 800cm
b. 8000cm
C. 8000cm
d. 80000cm
The given problem above is an example of a routine problem. In
solving routine problems involving the volume of a rectangular prism w
use the 4-step plan. Below is an example of a routine problem involvin
of a rectangular prism.​