Level 3
Tank L is a cubical container of edge 28 cm. It is completely filled with water. Tank M is a rectangular tank measuring 54 cm by 24 cm by 25 cm. It is filled with water flowing from a tap at a rate of 1.3 ℓ per minute. 5 minutes later, the tap is turned off.
  1. Find the volume of water in Tank M after 5 minutes. Give your answer in litres.
  2. All the water in Tank L is then poured into Tank M without spilling. How much more water is needed to fill Tank M completely? Give your answer in litres.
4 m
Level 2
38 of a container is filled with cooking oil. After 2.1 ℓ of oil is poured into the container, it becomes 23 full. How much more cooking oil would be needed to completely fill the container? Give your answer in litres.
3 m
Level 3
A cubical tank of edge 30 cm contained some water to a height of 12 cm.
  1. Find the volume of water in the tank at first.
  2. A tap was then turned on for 20 minutes to fill the tank with water at a rate of 0.6 ℓ per minute. How much more water was needed to fill the tank to the brim when the tap was turned off? Leave your answer in litres.
4 m
Level 3
Container A measures 28 cm by 20 cm by 14 cm was 34 filled with water. When the water was poured into Container B, it was 14 full. Find the base area of Container B if its height was 20 cm.
3 m
Level
A rectangular tank 40 cm long, 20 cm wide and 36 cm high was 56 filled with water.
  1. What was the volume of the water in the tank in litres?
  2. A tap was used to drain the water from the tank at a rate of 4 ℓ per minute. The tap was turned off when the tank was 13 filled with water. How long did it take to drain the water?
4 m
Level 3
The figure shows a rectangular container with a square base of area 16 cm2. The area of the shaded face is 36 cm2.
  1. What is the height of the container?
  2. James filled a third of the container with water. Find the volume of the water.
3 m
Level 3
A large cubical container of side 60 cm was filled with fruit juice up to 30% of its capacity. After 5 full jugs of fruit juice were removed from it, the level of fruit juice in the container dropped by 14 cm. The remaining fruit juice was then drained out through a tap found at the bottom of the container at a rate of 3 litres per min.
  1. How much fruit juice can each jug hold? Express your answer in mℓ.
  2. How long would it take to completely drain the fruit juice from the container through the tap? Express your answer in min. (1 ℓ = 1000 cm3)
4 m
Level 3
The following tank has a square base of side 40 cm. It is filled with water to a height of 8 cm. If 32 ℓ more of water is needed to fill the tank completely, what is the height of the tank?
3 m
Level 3
35 of a rectangular tank with a base area of 800 cm2 is filled with water. Another 2.4 ℓ of water are needed to fill this tank to its brim. What is the height of the water in the tank?
3 m
Level 3
A rectangular tank is filled with water to a height of 4 cm. Its rectangular base measures 25 cm by 8 cm. When 12 litres of water are poured into the tank, the water level rises to 25 of the height of the tank. Find the height of the tank.
3 m
Level 3
A tank with a base measuring 60 cm by 10 cm had two leaks at 400 cm3 per minute and 300 cm3 per minute respectively. If the water level was 15 cm originally, what would be the height of water in the tank after 6 minutes?
4 m
Level 3
A tank with a square base of 10 cm was 13 filled with water After another 4500 cm3 of water was poured into the tank, it became 34 full.
  1. Find the capacity of the tank in litres.
  2. Find the final height of the water in the tank.
3 m
Level 3
Tank A was 15 filled with water. After 15000 cm3 of water was added to Tank A, it became 710 full.
  1. Find the volume of Tank A in litres.
  2. Find the volume of water in Tank A in the end. Give your answer in litres.
3 m
Level 3
Mr Gopi uses two pipes to fill a pool. The first pipe can fill the pool in 6 h. The second pipe can fill the pool in 8 h. Two house after both pipes are turned on, Mr Thomas accidentally opens the pipe which can drain the pool completely in 12 h. With the 3rd pipe now remained open, what is the total time taken by Mr Gopi to fill the pool completely? Express your answer in h.
4 m
Level 2
A rectangular tank measuring in 40 cm by 15 cm by 20 cm is 25 filled with water. How much water is needed to fill the tank to 50% of the capacity? Give your answer in litres.
3 m
Level 3
At 10 a.m., Mrs Leng used two taps to fill up a tank. Tap A could fill the tank in 4 h. Tap B could fill the tank in 3 h. 1 hour after both taps were turned on, Tap B was faulty and stopped working. Mrs Leng accidentally opened Tap C which could drain a full tank completely in 2 h. Instead of being filled, the tank was emptied. How long did it take for the tank to be completely empty? Express your answer in mixed number.
4 m
Level 3
An open tank of depth 20 cm has a horizontal base of length 40 cm and breadth 25 cm. Two wooden cubes, of side 8 cm and 10 cm respectively, rest on the base of the tank.
  1. Find the capacity of the tank.
  2. How much water must be poured into the tank so that the tank is half filled?
3 m
Level 3
A tank with a base measuring 60 cm by 10 cm had two leaks at 400 cm3 per minute and 300 cm3 per minute respectively. If the water level was 15 cm originally, what would be the height of water in the tank after 6 minutes?
4 m
Level 3
A rectangular container measuring 55 cm by 50 cm by 23 cm was 110 filled with water. Mary turned on a tap at 9.36 p.m. to fill more water into the container. She turned off the tap at 9.59 p.m. The container was 910 filled with water. Given that the water flowed out of the tap at the same rate, find the volume of water that flowed out of the tap in a minute. Give your answer in litres.
4 m
Level 3
The figure shows an empty rectangular tank with a capacity of 35 ℓ. The tank has a height of 25 cm. Tap A filled the tank at a rate of 1.8 ℓ per minute. Tap B drained water from the tank at a rate of 1.1 ℓ per minute. Both taps were turned on for 20 minutes and then turned off.
  1. What is the base area of the tank?
  2. After both taps were turned off, how much more water is needed to fill the tank completely? Give your answer in litres.
4 m