
P5P6 Volume of Partially Filled Tank with Unknown Height

P5/P6 Volume of Partially Filled Container with Unknown Height


P5/P6 Volume of Partially Filled Container
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| Partially filled water tanks |
P5/P6 Math : Water in Partially-Filled Tanks to fill up Multiples of Smaller Containers
Such questions that deals with a large volume of water requires student to redistribute the water into smaller containers.
Both the dimensions of the larger tanks and smaller containers are given.
But the larger container is not filled to the brim.
Questions like these usually appear in Paper 2 of P5/P6 papers.
Calculator usage is allowed.
How many of such smaller containers can be filled with the water from the large tank?
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| Glass filled with water to the brim |
If the above question is easy, try to do the more challenging question below.
P5/P6 Math: Volume: Water Transfers Between 2 Containers
This question which addresses the P5/P6 topic of Volume requires students to be able to find a common height of water after the volume of water is shared between 2 containers.
This can appear in P5 or P6 Paper 2 so calculator usage is acceptable.
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| How water is purified and made safe for consumption |
P5/P6 Math: Volume: Cutting Cubes from Cuboids
This question which addresses the P5 topic of Volume requires students to consider the cuboid as a solid, as opposed to an empty container.
Students are required to calculate the number of identical cubes that can be cut out from the given cuboid.
This can appear in P5 Paper 2 so calculator usage is acceptable.
Such questions also may appear in P6 Paper 1 where students are not allowed the usage of calculators.


