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Volume and surface area word problems
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Volume word problem: gold ring
CCSS Math: 7.G.B.6
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Jamie wants to know the
volume of his gold ring in cubic inches. He gets a rectangular glass
with base 3 inches by 2 inches. So you see that here, the
base is 3 inches by 2 inches. And he fills the glass 4
inches high with water. So you see that over here,
4 inches high with water. Jamie drops his gold
ring in the glass and measures the new height of
the water to be 4.25 inches. So this is after the
gold ring is dropped. What is the volume of
Jamie's ring in cubic inches? Well when you start with
this water right over here and you add his ring, whatever
that volume is of his ring is going to displace an equal
volume of water and push it up. And so the incremental
volume that you now have is essentially going to
be the volume of his ring. Well what is the
incremental volume here? Well it's going
to be the volume. If you think about going
from this before volume to the after volume,
the difference is the base stays the same. It's 3 inches by 2
inches, the difference is-- to make it a little bit
neater-- the base is the same. The difference is the height. The height now is 4.25 inches
after dropping in the ring So the water went
up by 0.25 inches. Let me write that, 0.25 inches
is what the water went up by. So we could just
think about, what is this incremental
volume going to be? So this incremental
volume right over here, that I'm shading in with purple. Well to figure that out
we just have to measure. We just have to
multiply the length times the width times
the height times 0.25. So it's just going to
be 3 times 2 times 0.25. 3 times 2 is 6,
times 0.25, and you could do that either on
paper or you might be able do that in your head. 4 times 0.25 is going to
be 1, and you have 2 more times 0.25, that's
going to be 0.5. So this is going to be 1.50. And we multiply it inches
times inches times inches. So this is going to be
in terms of cubic inches. 1.5 cubic inches is the
volume of Jamie's ring, which is actually a pretty sizable
volume for a gold ring. Maybe he has a very big finger
or he just likes to spend, or I guess is his,
whoever bought him the ring likes to
spend a lot on gold.