Measurement Exam Review
Name: ____________________________________
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Date: ____________________
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Section A: Multiple Choice. For each of the following, circle the letter that corresponds to the correct response.
1) Mrs. Smith is trying calculate the amount of wrapping paper needed to wrap Mrs. Jones’ birthday present.
What does Mrs. Smith need to determine?
A) Volume of the gift
B) Surface Area of the gift
C) Perimeter of the gift
D) Circumference of the gift
2) Mrs. Smith also needs to fit the gift in amongst all of the props for musical in her car. To determine the
amount of space that the gift will occupy in the car, what could she calculate?
A) Volume of the gift
B) Surface Area of the gift
C) Perimeter of the gift
D) Circumference of the gift
3) What is the surface area of the square-based pyramid shown?
8cm
A)
B)
C)
D)
36cm2
60cm2
132cm2
168cm2
6cm
4) A spherical water tank has a diameter of 11m. What is the surface area of the water tank, to the nearest
square meter?
A)
B)
C)
D)
35m2
75m2
190m2
380m2
5) The volume of a cylinder is 786cm3. What is the volume of a cone with the same base and height that will
fit just inside?
A)
B)
C)
D)
250cm3
262cm3
785cm3
1570cm3
Section B: Open Response. In order to receive full value for the following, please show all of your work
(formulas used, values substituted into formulas, steps in your process, and final answer with units and sentence).
1) A cube shaped box has length, width, and height of 5.2cm. This box just fits a candle mould that is the
shape of a square based pyramid
a) How much wax is needed to fill the pyramid-shaped mould in order to create the candle?
b) Commercial wax comes in 1,000,000 cm3 blocks. How many candles from question 2(a) can be created
from one block of wax?
2) The diameter of a Hershey’s Whopper Balls is 1.875cm. The inside of a whopper is filled with malted
milk, and the outside is covered with chocolate.
a)
Determine the amount of malted milk needed to fill a whopper, giving your final answer in mL (Recall:
1cm3 = 1mL).
b) Determine the amount of chocolate needed to cover each whopper.
c) If a 10ounce bag of whoppers contains approximately 80 whoppers inside, how much chocolate was
needed to cover all 80 of these whoppers?
3) The following cup has a height of 7cm, a radius of 5cm, and a slant height of 8.6cm. It is designed to hold
slushie ice.
a) If the slushie ice were to be perfectly level with the top of the cup, how much slushie ice can the cup
hold?
b) How much plastic wrap would you need to form each cup?