Volume of Prisms

Saturday, October 29, 2022

We are learning to…find the volume of rectangular

and triangular prisms.
Volume of Prisms
 Volume – The amount of space inside
a 3 dimensional figure.
 Volume is measured in cubic units
 Volume of Prisms
 With your cubic centimeters make a shape that has…. 12
 length = 3 cubes, width = 4 cubes, height = 1 cube …what is the volume? cubes
24
 length = 3 cubes, width = 4 cubes, height = 2 cubes …what is the volume? cubes
 length = 3 cubes, width = 4 cubes, height = 4 cubes …what is the volume? 48
cubes
 How is the “area of the base” and “height” related to the
volume of the object?
 To find the volume multiply the area of the base (bottom row) by the
height.
 Think of the height as adding on another layer of the base to the prism.
Volume of Prisms
 Formula for the area of a prism:
 (Area of the base) (height of the prism)
 or V = Bh
Find the volume of the
rectangular prisms below:

3 ft

16 cm

2 ft
5 ft
V = Bh 7 cm
V = (10)(3) 3 cm
V = Bh
V = 30 cubic feet
V = (21)(16)
V = 336 cubic cm
 Volume of Prisms
 You find the volume of a triangular prism by:
 Multiplying the Area of the base by the height of the prism or V = Bh
 The “BASE” of a triangular prism is the triangles.
 The base of any prism is the side that repeats.
 Hint: Prisms are named by their bases.
 The base is not always the bottom side of the prism.
 The “HEIGHT” of a triangle prism is the distance between the two bases
(which are triangles).
BASE
HEIGHT
Shade in and label the base of the
triangular prism.

Label the height of the triangular

prism.
BASE
 Find the volume of the
triangular prisms below:

25 in 13 in

20 in
12 in

11 in
3 in
15 in 10 in
V = Bh V = Bh
V = (½)(15)(20)(3) V = (½)(10)(12)(11)
V = 450 cubic inches V = 660 cubic inches