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UNIT1:1:Area
Area
a square
Topic
of of
a square
QUESTION 1 Find the area of the following squares.
a
5 cm
8 cm
4 cm
7 cm
6 cm
9 cm
QUESTION 2 Find the area of the square whose side is given below. (Show all your working.)
a
3m
10 m
11 cm
1.5 m
12 mm
3.2 m
QUESTION 3
Find the length of the side of the square whose area is given below. (Show all
working.)
16 cm2
169 m2
49 m2
225 cm2
256 cm2
676 mm2
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ofof
a rectangle
UNIT 2:
2:Area
Area
a rectangle
QUESTION 1 Find the area of the following rectangles.
a
5 cm
3m
30 cm
6 cm
7m
8 cm
5m
12 cm
14 mm
11 m
20 mm
4 cm
QUESTION 2 Find the area of each of the following rectangles whose length and breadth are given.
QUESTION 3 Complete the following.
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UNIT 3:
3:Area
Area
a triangle
Topic
ofof
a triangle
QUESTION 1 Find the area of the following triangles.
a
6 cm
5 cm
10 cm
9 cm
8 cm
18 cm
15 cm
18 cm
7 cm
21 cm
4 cm
12 cm
QUESTION 2
a
A triangle has a base of 30 cm and a height of 15 cm. What is its area?
A triangle has an area of 112 cm2 and a base length of 28 cm. Find its height.
QUESTION 3 Find the area of the triangles whose base and height are given.
QUESTION 4 Complete the following. (All lengths are in cm; areas are in cm2.)
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areas
UNIT 4:
4:Composite
Composite
areas
QUESTION 1 Find the areas of the following composite figures by dividing them into rectangles,
squares and triangles. All measurements are in centimetres.
15
5
5
10
10
4
12
15
24
e
4
8
25
2
8
16
25
3
2
40
20
h
6
25
25 60
10
40
18
60
QUESTION 2 Find the shaded area of each shape. All measurements are in centimetres.
a
b
c
10
12
20
10
12
4
25
22
32
20
12
4
12
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UNIT5:5:Volume
Volume
a cube
Topic
of aofcube
QUESTION 1 Find the volume of the following cubes.
a
2m
2m
4m
5 cm
4m
2m
5 cm
4m
5 cm
f
9m
7m
6m
9m
7m
6m
6m
9m
7m
QUESTION 2
a
The volume of a cube is 125 cm3. What is the length of each edge?
The volume of a cube is 343 cm3. Find its side length.
QUESTION 3 Calculate the volume of each of the following cubes whose side length is given. Show
all your working.
a
1 cm
11 cm
10 cm
2.4 m
3m
1.6 m
8 cm
1.9 m
2.5 m
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UNIT 6:
6:Volume
Volume
a rectangular
Topic
of of
a rectangular
prismprism
QUESTION 1 Find the volume of the following rectangular prisms. All measurements are in
centimetres.
a
c
6
6
4
10
8
10
10
QUESTION 2 Find the volume of each of the following rectangular prisms whose dimensions are
given below.
QUESTION 3 Complete the following.
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UNIT 7:
7:Volume
Volume
a triangular
prism
Topic
of of
a triangular
prism
QUESTION 1 Find the volume of the following triangular prisms. All lengths are in centimetres,
areas in square centimetres.
a
A = 20
10
A = 48
A = 60
f
9
6
8
12
20
13
12
30
QUESTION 2 Find the volume of each of the following triangular prisms whose dimensions are given
below.
QUESTION 3 Complete the following.
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UNIT
8:Volume
Volume
prisms
miscellaneous
Topic 8:
of of
prisms
miscellaneous
QUESTION 1 Find the volume of the following prisms. Length are in cm, areas in cm2.
a
c
8
3
7
12
12
e
8
f
A = 120
A = 12
A = 150
15
12
QUESTION 2 For the given solid:
15 cm
find the number of faces
find the number of vertices
find the number of edges
draw a line to divide it into a rectangular prism and a triangular prism
find the volume of the rectangular prism
find the volume of the triangular prism
find the total volume of the solid
10 cm
9 cm
24 cm
QUESTION 3 For the given solid:
a
find the area of the front big rectangle
find the area of the front small rectangle
find the cross-sectional area
10 cm
5 cm
8 cm
16 cm
find the volume of the solid
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UNIT9:
9:Capacity
Capacity
and
volume
Topic
and
volume
QUESTION 1 Convert the following to the unit given.
a
1000 mL =
6L=
1 kL =
75 000 mL =
mL
3.25 L =
4 kL =
L
mL
L
3500 mL =
6.5 L =
mL
6.5 kL =
1 mL =
cm3
1 kL =
QUESTION 2 Convert each of the following to the unit given.
a
1000 mm3 =
1000 cm3 =
cm3
L
1 000 000 cm3 =
1000 L =
m3
kL
m3
QUESTION 3
a
A jug has a volume of 12 000 cm3. How many litres of water can it hold?
A swimming pool holds 25 000 L of water. How many kilolitres is this?
A bottle contains
A fish tank measures 80 cm 60 cm 15 cm.
3
of a litre of drink. How many millilitres is this?
5
Find its volume in cubic centimetres.
ii
How many litres of water will it hold?
QUESTION 4 Find the volume of the following prisms and then find how many mL of liquid
each would hold. Show working.
a
5 cm
6 cm
5 cm
5 cm
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10:Problem
Problem
solving
volume
and capacity
Topic
solving
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volume
and capacity
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A rectangular tank with dimensions 80 cm 20 cm 25 cm is filled with water. Hold many
litres of water will it hold?
A dripping tap loses 5 mL of water every 30 seconds. How much water will be lost in 1 hour?
The volume of a cube is 729 cm3. Find its side length.
Dilnoor drank
Three hundred children went on a picnic. Each child drank a can of drink containing
500 mL. How many litres were consumed altogether?
A rectangular prism has dimensions 3 cm by 5 cm by 6 cm.
i What is its volume?
ii
4
of a litre of milk. How many millilitres is this?
5
If each of these dimensions are doubled, what would be its volume?
A photograph is 40 cm long and 20 cm wide. Find its area.
The perimeter of a square is 40 cm. Find the area of the square.
A triangle has an area of 80 cm2. If the base of the triangle is 20 cm, find its height.
10
Find the total area of the four walls of a room 10 m long, 8 m wide and 3 m high.
11
One of the faces of a cube has an area of 36 cm2. What is the volume of the cube?
12
Kabir drank 1.25 litres of milk. How many millilitres is this?
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