Volume

Objectives: To investigate the volume of a prism, cylinder, pyramid and a cone

Warm up
Find the Base Area of: 1. a prism with length 5 in and width 6 in. 2. a cylinder with radius 4 in. 3. a rectangular pyramid with length 3 cm and width 6 cm. 4. a right cone with radius 2 cm.

Find the Volume of a Prism

 Valentines Day is approaching. You have 48 chocolate cubes (1 in. x 1 in. x 1 in.). How many ways are there to pack these 48 chocolates in the shape of a rectangular box? What are some possible sets of dimensions?

Make a one-layer rectangular prism that is 4 cubes long and 3 cubes wide. The prism will be 4 units by 3 units by 1 unit. How many cubes are in the prism?

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3 x 4 x 1 = 12

Add a second layer to your prism to make a prism 4 units by 3 units by 2 units. How many cubes are in the prism?
a. 36 cubes Try again

b. 12 cubes
c. 24 cubes

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Add a third and fourth layer to your prism to make a prism 4 units by 3 units by 3 units and 4 x 3 x 4. How many cubes are in the prism?
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3 layers: 3 x 4 x 3 = 36

4 layers:
3 x 4 x 4 = 48

One way to pack the 48 chocolate cubes is 4 x 3 x 4.

Is there another way to pack the 48 chocolate cubes?

Notice that Base Area x Height is the Volume formula. Volume = Base Area x Height

How many cubes would be in the prism with base of 4 units by 3 units if there were 10 layers? The volume will be 4 x 3 x 10 = 120 cubes. The volume of a prism is equal to the length x width x height.

Now we learned that the volume of a rectangular prism is obtained by multiplying the Base Area with the Height. What happened if the prism change to a cylinder? How will you go about finding the volume of the cylinder?

Examine the cylinder. What is the shape of the base? What is the area of a circular base? Then what will be the volume of a cylinder?
Radius

height

Then what will be the volume of a cylinder?

Remember the volume of a prism is Area of the Base x height of the prism Now, consider the cylinder, the area of the cylinder base is r2, what is the volume of a cylinder?
2 r 2 r h r2 h

You have a cylindrical container with a radius of 2 in. at home and you decided to melt the 48 chocolate cubes and pour the melted chocolate into the cylinder. How high will the chocolate be?

Investigate the Volume of a pyramid

You know how to find the volume of a prism. Now we are going to investigate the volume of a pyramid. Consider a prism of size 4 x 4 x 4 in. and a pyramid of the same base and height.

 Imagine you filled the inverted pyramid with water and pour the water into the prism.

 Notice that 3 pyramids full of water will fill the prism.

Observation and Conclusion

From the above observation, what can you deduce concerning the volume of the pyramid compare to the prism. The volume of the pyramid is how many times the volume of the prism. Remember the volume of a prism is Length x width x height Hence the volume of pyramid is 1/3 length x width x height.

Reflections
PRISM Volume CYLINDER PYRAMID CONE

Reflections
PRISM Volume BA X HT lxwxh BA X HT r2h 1/3BA X HT 1/3 l x w x h 1/3 BA X HT 1/3 r2h CYLINDER PYRAMID CONE

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