Level 3 PSLE
A rectangular block A was cut along the dotted line into two smaller rectangular blocks of equal height, B and C, as shown. The volume of C is 1400 cm3 more than that of B.
  1. What is the height of each block?
  2. Pete packed 6 of block C such that they fit exactly into a box with a square base. The box has the same height as C. At most, how many of block B can be packed into such a box?
4 m
Level 3
A container holds some water up to a height of 71 cm. When 6 identical plastic balls are put into the container, the water level rises by 18 cm. One plastic ball is then removed from the tank, replaced by one metallic ball. The water level increases to 136 cm.
  1. Find the ratio of the volume of 1 plastic ball to 1 metallic ball.
  2. If the base area of the container is 150 cm2, find the difference in the volume between the metallic ball and the plastic ball. Give the answer in cm3.
4 m
Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. Tank A and Tank B have base areas of 1500 cm2 and 1000 cm2 respectively. Water was poured into an empty rectangular Tank A until it reached a height of 20 cm. Some of the water was then poured from Tank A into Tank B which contained 1.5 ℓ of water until the height of the water in both tanks were the same.
  1. Find the new height of the water in Tank A.
  2. How many litres of water were poured into Tank B?
4 m
Level 3
A square base tank has a volume of 2880 cm3. If the edge of the base is 35 that of its height, find the area of its base.
4 m
Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. It shows an empty container made up of a cuboid, measuring 40 cm by 25 cm by 25 cm and 2 similar cubes of sides 5 cm. Line A is 10 cm. 12.5 ℓ of water is poured into the top cube into the cuboid.
  1. What is the height of the water level from the base of the container?
  2. How much more water in cm3 must be poured in so that the water fills up half of the top cube?
5 m
Level 3
Figure A shows a rectangular container filled with some water and 8 identical blocks. The base area of the rectangular container is 448 cm2. Figure B shows the same container being turned upright. Find the volume of water in the container.
5 m
Level 3
Becky filled a rectangular container which had a base area of 40 cm2 and a height of 25.2 cm with water. Then, she placed 8 identical metal cubes into this container. As a result, the height of the water in the rectangular container increased by 1.6 cm.
  1. What was the length of each side of the metal cube?
  2. After Becky removed the metal cubes from the container, she poured all the water from the container to fill bottles of 0.35 ℓ. What was the maximum number of bottles she could fill?
5 m