Area, Perimeter and Volume Word Problems
1. Calculate the amount of food that can be placed in the feeder.
2. A movie theater serves a small size of popcorn in a conical
container and a large size of popcorn in a cylindrical
container. What is the volume of the small container?
What is the volume of the large container? How many
small containers of popcorn do you have to buy to equal
the amount of popcorn in a large container?
3. Your little cousin got a new sandbox for her birthday. It is in the shape of a cylinder with a diameter of
3.5 ft and a depth of 0.8 ft. You bought her 6 bags of sand containing 2 cu ft each. You want to fill the
sandbox and make it even on the top. Do you have enough sand? If yes, how much extra do you
have? If no, how much more do you need?
4. You have a box that is 21 cm long, 6 cm wide and 8 cm tall. You also have a can that has a diameter of
19 cm and a height of 20 cm. Which container holds more and how do you know?
5. Felice bought the candle with a square base of side 12 cm and height 24 cm for her friend’s birthday.
The package says that the candle burns one hour for every 20 cubic centimeters of wax. How many
hours will it take the entire candle to burn?
6. The spray from a spinning lawn sprinkler makes a circle with a 40’ radius, what is the circumference
and area of the circle?
7. If a triangular sail has a vertical height of 83 ft and horizontal length of 40 ft, what is the area of the
sail?
8. A rectangular field is to be fenced in completely. The width is 28 yd and the total area is 1,960 yd 2.
What is the length of the field?
9. A circular picture frame has a radius of 6 inches. How much gold ribbon is needed to cover the outer
edge of the frame?
10. Anna is covering a pool with a heavy duty cover. The pool has a diameter of 24 feet and the cover
extends 12 inches beyond the edge of the pool. What is the area of the cover?