Practice finding the volume of rectangular prisms by counting unit cubes, using layers, and multiplying length, width, and height.
Read each problem carefully. Count cubic units or use multiplication to find the volume. Show your work in the space provided.
Find volume by counting and multiplying cubic units
Math - Grade 4-5
- 1
A box is filled with unit cubes. The bottom layer has 3 rows with 4 cubes in each row. There are 2 layers. What is the volume of the box in cubic units?
- 2
A rectangular prism is 5 unit cubes long, 2 unit cubes wide, and 3 unit cubes tall. What is its volume?
- 3
Count the cubes in a prism that has 6 cubes in one layer and 4 equal layers. What is the volume?
- 4
A stack of unit cubes is shown as 2 cubes long, 2 cubes wide, and 2 cubes tall. How many unit cubes are in the stack?
- 5
A storage crate has a volume of 36 cubic units. It is 4 units long and 3 units wide. How many unit layers tall is it?
- 6
Maya builds a rectangular prism with 4 cubes in each row, 2 rows in each layer, and 5 layers. What is the volume of Maya's prism?
- 7
A prism has a bottom layer with 3 cubes across and 5 cubes back. It is 1 layer tall. What is the volume?
- 8
Which prism has the greater volume: Prism A is 3 units by 3 units by 2 units, and Prism B is 4 units by 2 units by 2 units?
- 9
A rectangular prism is made of 27 unit cubes. It has 3 cubes across, 3 cubes back, and the same number of cubes in each layer. How many layers does it have?
- 10
Liam says a prism that is 2 units long, 6 units wide, and 2 units tall has a volume of 10 cubic units. Is he correct? Explain.
- 11
A box has 4 layers of cubes. Each layer has 8 cubes. What is the volume of the box?
- 12
Find the volume of a rectangular prism with a length of 7 units, a width of 1 unit, and a height of 3 units.
- 13
A prism has 5 cubes in each row and 3 rows in each layer. Its volume is 45 cubic units. How many layers tall is it?
- 14
A rectangular prism is built with unit cubes. The front face shows 4 cubes across and 3 cubes tall. The prism is 2 cubes deep. What is the volume?
- 15
Create your own rectangular prism with a volume of 24 cubic units. Write its length, width, and height.