Word Problems on Volume of Prisms

Q. If the thickness of the wall of the box is $1$ cm on all sides, find the amount of wood required to build this box.

1. $288$ cm${}^3$
2. $480$ cm${}^3$
3. $192$ cm${}^3$

Q. Four people decide to beat the World record of voluminous snow prism. They created the following prism of height 30 m having parallelogram base of side 8 m and height 12 m. What is the volume of the snow prism?

1. 2560 m${}^3$
2. 2780 m${}^3$
3. 2780 m${}^3$
4. 2880 m${}^3$

Q. A rectangular tank is one-fourth full of water. How much more water ($inc{m}^3$) needs to be added to completely fill it?

Q. If the rate of burning is $2$ cm${}^3$ $/3$ min, how long will this candle burn?

1. $2$ hours
2. $1$ hour
3. $1.5$ hours

Q. What will be the volume of this doll house?

1. $12000$ cm${}^3$
2. $10000$ cm${}^3$
3. $12000$ cm${}^3$
4. None of the above

Q. The columns in the ancient palace were made up of triangular prisms that were 50 m tall. The base is a triangle with a side of 8 m and the perpendicular down to the 8 m side is 3 m. There were 200 such columns. If the cost of the material is 2/m${}^3$ . The total cost of materials needed to build all 200 columns would be

Q. The columns in the ancient palace were made up of triangular prisms that were 50 m tall. The base is a triangle with a side of 8 m and the perpendicular down to the 8 m side is 3 m. There were 200 such columns. What volume of materials was used to make all the columns in the palace?

1. 100, 000 m${}^3$
2. 110, 000 m${}^3$
3. 120, 000 m${}^3$
4. 130, 000 m${}^3$