Geometry · Chapter 12 · Lesson 12.12 · Printable PDF

Volume of a Sphere Worksheet with Answer Key

7 problems on volume of a sphere: balls and hemispheres, a snowman, a paper lantern, a hollow ceramic ball, comparing a bowl and a cone, soup in a mug, and gumballs in a globe. 1 page, with a worked answer key.

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  1. Find the volume of each ball or hemisphere exactly in terms of pi:
    ball, r = 6 cmball, d = 18 mball, r = \dfrac{3}{2} ftball, r = 0.6 mhemisphere, r = 3 in
  2. Find the total snow in Hannah's snowman from three balls.
  3. Find the smallest cube-shaped box a round paper lantern fits in.
  4. Find the wall thickness of a hollow ceramic ball from the clay used.
  5. Decide whether a hemisphere bowl or a cone holds more using the volume formulas.
  6. Decide whether soup from a hemisphere bowl overflows a cylindrical mug.
  7. Estimate how many gumballs fill a globe if they fill 64 percent of the space.

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