Level 2
A rectangular tank has a base area of 50 cm2. It is half filled with water. If 4 bottles of water are poured into the tank, 250 mℓ of water will overflow. If 3 bottles of water are poured into the tank, 100 mℓ of water will overflow. Find the height of the tank.
2 m
Level 3
Shemy placed three empty tanks side by side. The smallest tank has a crack at its side and the base area of each tank is 16 cm2. After she turned on the tap for 64 minutes, the height of the water in the smallest tank became 6 cm although 0.5 mℓ of water is leaking out of the crack per minute. Find the rate of flow of water from the tap. Give the answer in mℓ/min.
3 m
Level 2
A container, which is 10 cm long, 9 cm wide and 7.55 cm deep, holds 1510 g of sugar. If 4.95 kg of the same sugar is packed into a tin with a 15-cm square base, how tall must the tin be?
3 m
Level 3
Figure 1 shows a closed rectangular tank of dimensions 40 cm by 40 cm by 80 cm with a cube of edge 20 cm glued to its bottom left corner. The tank contains 70 litres of water. Figure 2 shows the same rectangular tank lying on its side. Find the height of the water level, in centimetres, corrected to 2 decimal places.
3 m
Level 3
The figure shows an empty transparent tank made from three containers. The two containers A and B on top are in the form of cuboids which have square bases of side 6 cm and 4 cm as shown in the figure. The bottom container is in the form of a cube of side 14 cm. 3.42ℓ of water are poured into the empty vase. Find the height of the water level from the base of the vase. (1 litre = 1000 cm3)
3 m