Level 3
Cubical Tank P has a length of 36 cm and is 79 filled with water. Some of the water is poured into an empty rectangular fish tank measuring 50 cm long, 18 cm wide and 26 cm high until it is completely full.
  1. What is the volume of water in Tank P at first? Give your answer in cm3
  2. What is the volume of water left in Tank P? Give your answer in litres.
3 m
Level 3
A rectangular tank measuring 50 cm by 36 cm by 27 cm was 34 filled with water. The water was used to fill up some bottles of capacity 2 ℓ each. How many bottles were filled completely?
3 m
Level 3
A rectangular tank, measuring 30 cm by 25 cm by 40 cm, was filled with water. Ben poured all the water into 1.5 ℓ bottles. After filling 4 bottles, how many more bottles could Ben fill?
3 m
Level 3
A container measuring 25 cm by 16 cm by 48 cm was 13 filled with water at first. James poured some water into the container. In the end, the height of the water level in the container was 20 cm as shown.
  1. How much water did James pour into container? Give your answer in mℓ.
  2. James then poured all the water in the container into several identical jugs. Given that each jug can hold at least 1.25 ℓ of water, what is the least number of jugs he would need?
3 m
Level 3
A rectangular tank, measuring 20 cm by 12 cm by 15 cm, was completely filled with water. All the water was poured into identical cubical containers of side 8 cm. What was the least number of containers used?
3 m
Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. A tank has a square base area of 81 m2. It was filled with water to a height of 2 m. Freda added 18 pails of water and the height of the water level rose to 13 m. Find the volume of each pail. Give your answer in m3.
3 m
Level 3
Container A and Container B had some liquid in the ratio 7 : 5. After 48 litres of liquid was transferred from A to B, the amount of liquid in Container B became 3 times as much as in Container A. How much liquid were there in the two tanks in all?
4 m
Level 3
The figure is a structure made up of 2 cm cubes. What is the volume of the total number of cubes up to the 10th step?
4 m
Level 3
In the working, A, B, C, D, E and F are 2-digit numbers. If A is 20, B is the 4th multiple of A, C is the 3rd multiple of 11, D is the volume of a cube with length of 4 units, and F is the 4th multiple of 11, what is E?
3 m
Level 3
A tank was completely filled with water. The ratio of the length of the tank to its breadth to its height is 8 : 4 : 15.
  1. Given that the height of the tank is 45 cm, find the volume of water in the tank.
  2. All the water in the tank was poured into 2 empty bottles A and B without spilling any water. As a result, Bottle A had 1500 cm3 more water than Bottle B. Find the volume of water in Bottle A. Give your answer in litres.
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
A cylindrical dispenser of capacity 5.7 ℓ was filled with apple juice to its brim. The milk in the dispenser was then dispensed into a cubical container of sides 18 cm, through a tap flowing at a rate of 200 mℓ/min. After 15 min, the tap was turned off and the container was 23 full.
  1. What percentage of the milk in the cylindrical dispenser was left? Round off your answer to the nearest 2 decimal places.
  2. How many litres of milk were there in the container at first? (1 ℓ = 1000 cm3)
5 m
Level 3
An empty tank measures 50 cm by 20 cm by 35 cm. 3 wooden cubes each of edge 10 cm, are placed in the tank. The tank is then filled with water flowing from a tap at a rate of 8 ℓ per minute.
  1. How long will it take to fill up the tank? Express your answer in min.
  2. What will be the depth of the water in the tank after 2 wooden cubes are removed?
5 m
Level 3
A tank measuring 50 cm by 20 cm by 22 cm, with some cubes placed inside, was filled with 3.875 ℓ of water to the height as shown in Figure 1. Some water was then added into the tank to the height as shown in Figure 2. The total volume of water in the tank then became 8.375 ℓ. What was the volume of one cube?
4 m
Level 3
A rectangular tank measuring 48 cm by 18 cm by 26 cm was filled with 18.8 litres of water as shown in Figure 1. When three identical wooden blocks were put into the tank, 794 mℓ of water overflowed from the tank as shown in Figure 2. Find the volume of one such wooden block.
4 m
Level 2
There was 11 ? of water in a pail and 1.8 ? of water in a basin. Warren then poured in an equal volume of water into each container. Now, the volume of water in the pail is 5 times in the basin. How much water did Warren pour into each container?
2 m
Level 3
Tank A measuring 50 cm by 46 cm by 15 cm contained 34 ℓ of water. Tank B measuring 40 cm by 30 cm by 35 cm contained 18 ℓ of water. Alan poured some water from Tank A into Tank B without spilling and the water level of Tank B rose to 28 cm. What was the height of water level left in Tank A?
4 m
Level 3
Figure A shows a rectangular container. It is 35 filled with water. The length of the container is 18 cm and its breadth is 3 cm.
  1. Find the capacity of the container in litres.
  2. All the water in the rectangular container is poured into another tank as shown in Figure B. Find the height that represents the water level of the amount of water in it.
4 m
Level 3
Container M and Container N are identical. Container M is filled with water to the brim and Container N is empty. Some water from Container M is poured into Container N such that the ratio of the volume of water remained in Container M to that in Container N is 3 : 2.
  1. How much water is poured into Container N?
  2. Find the height of water that remained in Container M.
4 m
Level 3
The figure, not drawn to scale, shows an empty water container made out of 2 different solid shapes. The total height of the figure is 24 cm. The bottom part of the figure is formed by a 12-cm cube. The top part of the figure is formed by a cuboid with the corners of its square base touching the midpoints of the edges of the cube. The figure on the right shows the view of the solid from the top. 2 litres of water is poured into the empty water container. Find the height of the water level from the base of the water container.
4 m