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New example questions from the library every Monday. Updated on 5 October 2026.
Which bottle is empty?
The bottle without water
The bottle with water
The blue bottle
The big bottle
Which bowl is half-full?
The bowl with water to half
The empty bowl
The full bowl
The broken bowl
Which box is empty?
The box without toys
The full box
The box of balls
The heavy box
Which can handle the most water?
A swimming pool
A glass
One teaspoon
A cap
How much sand fits in a small bucket?
A bit of sand
Lots of sand
No sand
Water
Which bowl has more fruit?
The full scale
The empty bowl
The broken shell
The small scale
How many small fish can fit in a large aquarium?
Lots of little fish
Three little fish
No fishes
One fish
What can go into a big biscuit jar?
Lots of biscuits
One biscuit
Nothing
A mouse
A carton of milk contains 500 ml. You drink 375 ml of it. What percentage remains?
25%
75%
125 ml
20%
Which is bigger: 3,500 millilitres or 3.2 litres?
3500 millilitres
3.2 litres
They are the same size
Can't compare
A bathtub contains 150 litres of water. 25 litres run off. How much remains?
125 litres
175 litres
135 litres
115 litres
Which shape has the largest volume if all three have the same height?
Cylinder
Cube
Pyramid
Rectangular block
Two cubes each have ribs of 3 cm. What is the total volume of both cubes together?
54 cm³
27 cm³
18 cm³
81 cm³
A box has a length of 20 cm, width of 15 cm and height of 8 cm. How many litres will fit in it?
2.4 litres
24 litres
0.24 litres
1.2 litres
A building block is 8×4×2 cm. What is the content of 10 bricks?
640 cm³
64 cm³
320 cm³
800 cm³
A container of yoghurt contains 150 ml. How many containers do you need for 1.2 litres?
8 trays
6 trays
10 trays
12 trays
An aquarium measuring 50 cm × 30 cm × 40 cm is 80% filled. How many litres of water are in it?
48 litres
60 litres
12 litres
24 litres
A cylinder has diameter 10 cm. At what height is the volume exactly 785 cm³? (π ≈ 3,14)
10 cm
5 cm
15 cm
20 cm
A trapezoidal prism has ground plane with parallel sides of 6 and 10 cm, height 4 cm and length 20 cm. What is its volume?
640 cm³
480 cm³
800 cm³
320 cm³
A half-filled cylindrical tank contains 942 litres. What is the total volume?
1884 litres
471 litres
1413 litres
2826 litres
If a cube has a volume of 125 cm³, what is the length of one rib?
5 cm
25 cm
15 cm
10 cm
A rain barrel is shaped like a cylinder with diameter 80 cm and height 1.2 m. For a rainfall of 5 mm across the whole country, what percentage of the barrel will be filled?
0,42%
4,2%
0,042%
0,84%
How many 33 cl cans of soft drinks can be filled from a 2 m³ tank?
6061 cans
6667 cans
5555 cans
7500 cans
Two cubes have ribs in ratio 2:3. How do their volumes relate?
8:27
2:3
4:9
1:2
A beer barrel (keg) is shaped like a cylinder with diameter 40 cm and height 60 cm. How many litres does it contain?
75.4 litres
94.2 litres
60.3 litres
113.1 litres
An igloo is shaped like a hemisphere with a diameter of 4 metres. What is the interior space?
16,8 m³
33,5 m³
12,6 m³
25,1 m³
A trapezoidal prism has ground planes of 30 cm² and is 40 cm long. What is its volume?
1200 cm³
1500 cm³
900 cm³
1000 cm³
What is the volume of a rectangular box 12 cm long, 8 cm wide and 5 cm high?
480 cm³
400 cm³
560 cm³
320 cm³
An icosahedron (twenty triangles) has the same volume as a sphere of radius 5 cm. What is this volume?
524 cm³
419 cm³
628 cm³
471 cm³
A cube has a volume of 216 cm³. How long is one rib?
6 cm
8 cm
9 cm
7 cm
A swimming pool is 25 metres long, 10 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep on average. How many litres of water does it contain?
375,000 litres
250,000 litres
500,000 litres
300,000 litres
A paraboloid has a ground circle with radius 6 cm and height 9 cm. Its volume is half that of an equivalent cylinder. What is its volume?
509 cm³
1018 cm³
763 cm³
381 cm³
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