My 2nd Problem

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Instructions:
1. Cut out each problem neatly and glue on a separate piece of white paper.
2. Read each problem carefully. Circle numbers and underline key operation
words.
3. Explain your steps in solving the problem. Points are given for explanations,
computation with labels, and drawing. Show EVERYTHING you know about
solving the problem!
4. Show more than one way of thinking if possible.
5. Be neat and organized with your math steps.
6. Write your answer in a complete sentence.
7. Check spelling.
8. Color and felt-tip pens may be used.
9. When you are finished with your project, only put one staple in the upper
left corner.
10. Ask your parents to review your work and sign the publishing permission.

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1. The Howard family wants to
fill up their swimming pool to the
very top with water. The length
of the pool is 50 meters and the
width is 25 meters. The pool is 10
meters deep. How much water
will the pool hold?
2. Coy measured a cereal box. It
is two inches wide, six inches
long, and twelve inches tall. What
is the volume of the cereal box?
5. Luke used 30 cubes to build a
rectangular prism that was 5
cubes long, 3 cubes wide, and 2
cubes high. He decided to take
apart the prism and build
another one with the same 30
cubes, but different dimensions.
What dimensions could Luke have
used?
6. Noah bought a box of
pasteurized cheese as shown in
the diagram.

3. Brittany has a box that is 15

inches long and 5 inches wide.
The volume of the box is 225
cubic inches. What is the height
of the box?
He cut off a 2-inch length
section of the cheese to use in
4. Jayla wrapped a gift that was
his recipe. What is the volume of
six inches wide and ten inches
the remaining portion of cheese?
tall. The volume of the box was
120 in3. What was the length of
the box?
 9. Samantha is trying to find the
volume of a tool box. She knows
7. Mariah bought a wooden beam
that the area of the bottom is
as shown below.
160 square inches. She then
measures the height, which turns
out to be 20 inches. What is the
She sawed off a 4 foot section volume of the box?
of the beam to use as a
bookshelf. What is the volume of
the remaining portion of wooden
beam?

8. The Sunny Cracker Company

packages crackers in boxes with 10. Matthew placed 15 one-inch
dimensions shown below. cubes inside a shoe box. The shoe
box has a total volume equal to
the box shown below.

If the company packages 10

boxes of crackers per carton,
what is the best estimate for
the volume of the carton?
How many more one-inch cubes
can Matthew place inside his
show box?
 Student: No. Correct Rubric Points
Required 22 points = A Total Points *Grade
*No. Correct + Rubric Points 22