9.3 Measuring Volume

A grandparent wants to send cookies to their grandchild away at college. Which represents a reasonable value for the volume of a box to ship the cookies:

1. 3,375 km³,
2. 3,375 m³, or
3. 3,375 cm³?

A food manufacturer is prototyping new packaging for one of its most popular products. Which represents a reasonable value for the volume of the box:

1. 2 dm³,
2. 2 cm³, or
3. 2 mm³?

A farmer has a hay loft. They calculate the volume of the hayloft as 64 cm³. Does the calculation make sense? Explain your answer.

A pencil case has a volume of 1,700 cm³. What is the volume in cubic millimeters?

A shipping container has a volume of 33.2 m³. What is the volume in cubic centimeters?

A holding tank at the local aquarium has a volume of 22,712,000,000 cm³. What is the volume in cubic meters?

A holding tank at the local aquarium has a volume of 22,712,000,000 cm³? What is the capacity of the holding tank in liters?

An airplane used 150 m³ of fuel to fly from New York to Hawaii. How many liters of fuel did the airplane use?

How many liters can a pitcher with a volume of 8,000,000 mm³ hold?

A cubic shipping carton’s dimensions measure $2 m \times 2 m \times 2 m$. A company wants to fill the carton with smaller cubic boxes that measure $10 cm \times 10 cm \times 10 cm$. How many of the smaller boxes will fit in each shipping carton?

A carton of juice measures 6 cm long, 6 cm wide and 20 cm tall. A factory produces 28,800 liters of orange juice each day. How many cartons of orange juice are produced each day?