All SAT II Math I Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #82 : Solid Geometry
Find the volume of a tetrahedron if the side length is .
Write the equation to find the volume of a tetrahedron.
Substitute the side length and solve for the volume.
Rationalize the denominator.
Example Question #82 : Solid Geometry
What is the volume of a regular tetrahedron with an edge length of 6?
The volume of a tetrahedron can be solved for by using the equation:
where is the measurement of the edge of the tetrahedron.
This problem can be quickly solved by substituting 6 in for .
Example Question #21 : Volume
What is the volume of the tetrahedron shown below?
The volume of a tetrahedron is .
This tetrahedron has a side with a length of 8.
, which becomes .
You can reduce that answer further, so that it becomes
.
Example Question #21 : Volume
Find the volume of sphere whose radius is 15.
The volume of a sphere is given by the equation:
The problem says that the radius is 15, so plug in 15 for r and simplify.
Example Question #22 : Volume
Find the volume of a sphere with the diameter of .
Write the equation for the volume of a sphere.
The radius is half the diameter, or .
Substitute the radius into the equation.
Reduce the fractions.
The answer is:
Example Question #22 : 3 Dimensional Geometry
Determine the volume of a rectangular prism if the length is , width is , and the height is .
Write the formula for the volume of a rectangular prism.
Substitute the dimensions into the formula.
Reduce this fraction.
The answer is:
Example Question #24 : Volume
The length of a box is half its height and two-thirds its width. The volume of the box is four cubic meters. Give the length of the box to the nearest centimeter.
None of these
Call , , and the length, width, and height of the crate.
The length of the crate is half its height, so
The length of the crate is two-thirds its width, so
The dimensions of the crate in terms of are , , and . The volume is their product:
Substitute:
Solve for :
meters.
Since one meter comprises 100 centimeters, multiply by 100 to convert to centimeters:
,
which rounds to 110 centimeters.
Example Question #21 : 3 Dimensional Geometry
A circular swimming pool has diameter 32 meters and depth meters throughout. Which of the following expressions gives the total area of the inside of the pool, in square meters?
None of the other responses is correct.
The bottom of the pool is a circle with diameter 32, and, subsequently, radius half this, or 16; its area is
The side of the pool is the lateral surface of a cylinder with radius 16 and height ; the area of this is
The area of the inside of the pool is the sum of these two, or
Example Question #1 : Surface Area
A circular swimming pool at an apartment complex has diameter 50 feet and depth six feet throughout.
The apartment manager needs to get the interior of the swimming pool painted. The paint she wants to use covers 350 square feet per gallon. How many one-gallon cans of paint will she need to purchase?
The correct answer is not given among the other responses.
The pool can be seen as a cylinder with depth (or height) six feet and a base with diameter 50 feet - and radius half this, or 25 feet.
The bottom of the pool - the base of the cylinder - is a circle with radius 25 feet, so its area is
square feet.
Its side - the lateral face of the cylinder - has area
square feet.
Their sum - the total area to be painted - is square feet. Since one gallon of paint covers 350 square feet, divide:
Eight cans of paint and part of a ninth will be required, so the correct response is nine.
Example Question #1 : Surface Area
Figure not drawn to scale.
Find the surface area of the cylinder above.
87.25 in2
122.14 in2
94.25 in2
73.44 in2
56.55 in2
94.25 in2
In order to find the surface area of a cylinder, you need to find the surface areas of the circles that are the top and bottom of the cylinder (2 x pi x radius2) and add it to the surface are of the rectangle that is the side of the cylinder (diameter x height).