Calculate the volume of rectangular prisms and cylinders
Objectives
Student will be able to:
find the volume of a rectangular prism.
find the volume of a cylinder.
Introduction
What is the volume of this rectangular prism?
The formula for finding the volume of a
rectangular prism
or
cylinder
is:
The volume of the rectangular prism is:
To calculate the volume of a cylinder, use the same formula:
Remember that the base of a cylinder is a circle. To find the area of a circle, use the formula:
Examples
1.
Calculate the volume of the cylinder. Use 3.14 for
and round to the nearest tenth.
2.
What is the volume of the rectangular prism?
Try Together
Complete the exercises. Show all work.
1.
What is the volume of the cylinder? Use 3.14 for
and round to the nearest tenth.
Check student's work.
2.
Calculate the volume of the rectangular prism.
Check student's work.
Please evaluate the student's answers:
Excellent
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