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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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Topic
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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Topic
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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5 cm
10 cm

A = 30 cm2

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UNIT 10:
10:Problem
Problem
solving
volume
and capacity
Topic
solving
withwith
area,area,
volume
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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.

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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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