Topic 5: Area & Volume

In this topic we shall be covering the following:

✓ Area of ALL 2-D shapes

✓ Surface Area

✓ Volume of ALL 3-D shapes

✓ Compound Shapes

✓ Level Rise

✓ Melting & Recasting

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 Table of Formulas

Area of a triangle 1 bh

2

Area of a triangle 
1 absin c
2

Area of a parallelogram bh

Area of a parallelogram absin c

1
2
(a + b ) h
Area of a trapezium

Volume of a prism Cross-sectional Area x Length

Volume of a pyramid/ right circular cone 1 Base Area x Perp. height

3

Total surface area of a pyramid Base Area + Area of Triangular faces

Curved surface area of a right circular cone rl

Total surface area of a right circular cone rl + r 2

Volume of a right circular cone 1 r 2 h
3

Surface area of a sphere 4r 2

Volume of a sphere 4 r 3
3

Curved surface area of a cylinder 2rh

Total surface area of a cylinder 2rh + 2r 2

Volume of a cylinder r 2 h

Circumference of a circle 2r

Area of a circle r 2

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 Metric Units
Length Mass Volume
1cm = 10mm 1kg = 1000g 1 litre = 1000ml = 1000cm3
1m = 100cm 1t = 1000kg 1m3 = 1000l
1km = 1000m (t = tonne) 1cm3 = 1ml

a. Complete the following:

a) 273m km i) 1.2km m
b) 0.013m cm j) 85cm m
c) 50.32cm mm k) 25mm cm
d) 13250cm km l) 6.4kg g
e) 400g kg m) 2t kg
f) 7kg t n) 800ml l
g) 4.5l ml o) 3l cm3
h) 5.5m3 l p) 600cm3 l

Changing Units
x1000 x100 x10
km m cm mm
1000 100 10
x10002 x1002 x102
km2 m2 cm2 mm2
10002 1002 102
x10003 x1003 x103
km3 m3 cm3 mm3
10003 1003 103
To change large units to smaller units always MULTIPLY
To change small units to larger units always DIVIDE

b. Complete the following:

a) 19253cm2 m2 f) 130200cm3 m3
b) 241mm2 cm2 g) 628mm3 cm3
c) 0.0357m2 cm2 h) 4.23m3 cm3
d) 0.000000034km2 cm2 i) 0.048m3 mm3
e) 6500m2 km2 j) 628mm3 m3

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Area of Triangle 1 (given perpendicular height)

1. Find the area of the following triangles:

a) b) c)

2) A gardener wants to buy grass sees for this triangular lawn.

A packet of grass seed covers 15m2 of ground.
A packet of grass seed costs Euro 6.99.

Calculate the cost of buying grass seed to cover the lawn.

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 Area of Triangle 1

1. Find the area of the following triangles:

a) b)

c) d)

2. Find the base of a triangle whose area is 16 cm2 and its height is 80 mm.

3. Find the height of a triangle whose area is 14 m2 and its base is 250 cm.

B
4. In ABC, AC=8 cm, BD=7 cm and BC=7.5 cm. E
Find:
a) the area of ABC
b) the length of AE, to 1 decimal place.

A D C

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5. In each of the following calculate the area of the shaded triangle, and the remaining area of the
square or rectangle accordingly.

a) 8cm b)

What can you deduce about the area

of the triangle?

c) d)

6. 8cm

In the flag shown on the left, all four

shaded triangles have the same area.

10cm 14cm Calculate the unshaded area of the

flag.

12m
20cm

7. The flag shown on the right has a length of A

18 m and a width of 12 m. Triangle A has a
base length of 12 m and is the same in 12m
area as the unshaded part.

What is the height of triangle A?

18m

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 Area of Triangle 1
1. Find the area of the following triangles:

a) d)

12cm
10cm 11cm 9cm

20cm 0.1m
b) e)

4.2cm
7.4cm
3.2cm

5.2cm
6cm
c) 12cm
f)

12cm 17cm
5.5cm
16cm
50mm

2. Find the shaded area of the following shapes:

a) A square of side 9cm has EAF cut off it.

b)
3cm

E
3cm 3cm

A 4cm F 6cm 4cm

C
3. In ABC, AB = 7 cm, CB = 6 cm and CE = 5 cm. D
Find: 6cm
a) the area of ABC 5cm
b) the length of AD.

A E 7cm B

B
4. In ABC, AC = 4 cm, BC = 7 cm and BE = 3.5 cm.
Find:
D 7cm
a) the area of ABC 3.5cm
b) the length of AD.

E A 4cm C

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Area of Parallelogram 1 (given perpendicular height)

1. Find the area of the parallelogram shown.

2. A painter is painting a logo on the side of an office block.

The logo is composed of four identical parallelograms as
shown in the diagram. Each tin of paint costs Euro 1.20
and contains enough paint to cover an area of 2.5m2.

How much will it cost to paint the logo?

3. Find the base length of the parallelogram shown.

4. Calculate the value x in the parallelogram shown.

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 Area of Parallelogram 1

Find the area of the following parallelograms.

Find the unknown length x in each of the following parallelograms.

Find the area of the parallelograms in Nos. 7 and 8. Find the unknown length x in No.9.

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Area of Trapezium

1. Find the area of the trapezium shown:

2. Sarah is looking to design the flower bed shown at the

front of her house. She would like to cover the entire
flower bed with rose bushes. Each bush needs 1.5m2
to allow the roots to spread out evenly. What is the
maximum number of rose bushes she can plant on her
flower bed?

3. The area of the trapezium shown is 128m2.

Calculate the value of h.

4. The area of the trapezium shown is 322mm2.

Calculate the length of the shorter parallel
side a.

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 Area of Trapezium
Calculate the area of the following trapeziums.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Calculate the area of the shaded parts of the shape below.

7. 8.

Find the unknown length x in each of the following trapeziums.

9. 10.

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 Area of Trapezium and Parallelogram

Find the area of each shape. All lengths are in cm.

1.

4.

6.

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 Area of Triangles, Trapeziums and Parallelograms

1. Find the area of the parts labeled A and B in

this flag if the highest point of the triangle is
exactly at the centre of the flag. A 10cm

16cm

2. Triangles A and C are congruent and are twice in

width as parallelogram B. A
12cm
Calculate the area of parts A and B of this flag. B
C

5cm

3. The width of one white strip is 1 cm and the 8cm

width of the black strip is 4 cm.
10cm
Calculate the area of the two remaining
triangles and the black parallelogram.

18cm

5cm

4. Parts A, B and C all have the same width. A

Calculate the area of the black trapezium
B 12cm
and the area of rectangle B.

20cm c
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Area of Triangle 2 (perpendicular height not given)

When the perpendicular height of a triangle is not given, we make use of another
formula as explained below. We make use of a pair of given adjacent sides (a and b),
and the included angle (C), meaning the angle between them.

1. Calculate the area of the following triangles to 2 decimal places.

a) b)

c) d)

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e) f)

g) h)

2. The area of the triangle shown is 30cm2.

Find the length labelled x.

3. The area of this triangle is 42cm2.

Find the angle labelled x.

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4. Calculate the area of the parallelogram
shown correct to 2 decimal places.

5. Calculate the value of the unknown angle as

shown in the diagram.

6. Quadrilateral ABCD is made up of two triangles as shown.

a) Work out the length of AC.

b) Calculate the total area of the quadrilateral.

7. The area of triangle PQR shown below is 55cm2.

Work out the value of x, correct to two decimal places.

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 Area of Triangle 2

This formula finds the area of a non right-angled triangle from two sides.

If angle C is given use

adjacent sides a and b

If angle A is given use

adjacent sides b and c

If angle B is given use

adjacent sides a and c

Ex. A

________________________________________________________

Ex. B

________________________________________________________

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Ex. C

a b

Ex. D

a b

________________________________________________________

Ex. E Work out the area of each triangle. Give your answers correct to 3 significant figures.

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Area of Parallelogram 2 (perpendicular height not given)

When the perpendicular height of a parallelogram is not given, we make use of another
formula as explained below. We make use of a pair of given adjacent sides (a and b),
and the included angle (C or x), meaning the angle between them. If compared to the
area of a triangle, it is practically the same, except for the ½.

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 Area of Parallelogram 2
This formula finds the area of a parallelogram with no perpendicular height from two sides.
If angle C is given use
d adjacent sides a and b A = ab sin C

If angle A is given use

c adjacent sides c and d A = cd sin A
a
If angle B is given use
adjacent sides a and d A = ad sin B
b If angle D is given use
adjacent sides b and c A = bc sin D

Find the area of the following parallelograms. All measurements are in cm.

1. 2.

3. The area of a parallelogram is 24 cm2. Its adjacent sides are 8 cm and 6 cm long respectively.
Find the angle included between these two sides.

4. The area of a parallelogram is 108 m2. The angle enclosed between its two adjacent sides is 35o.
If one of the adjacent sides is 18 m long, find the length of the other side.

5. Work out the area of each parallelogram or rhombus, giving your answers correct to 3 s.f.

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Prisms

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1. The figure shows a triangular prism.

Its cross-sectional area is 43cm2 and its

length is 9cm.

Calculate the volume of the prism.

2. Work out the volume of the prism shown.

The cross-sectional area is a parallelogram

with base length 8m and height 3m.

3. Calculate the volume of the prism shown.

4. Calculate the volume of this L-shaped prism.

5. The volume of this regular octagonal prism is

360m3. The area of the cross-section is 45m2.

Work out the length, L, of the prism.

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6. Calculate the surface area of the following
triangular prism.

7. Work out the surface area of this parallelogram

prism.

8. Work out the surface area of this cuboid.

Give your answer in cm2.

9. Work out the:

a) volume, and
b) surface area

of the prism shown.

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 Volume of Prisms
Volume of Prism = Cross-Sectional Area x Length

Find the volume of the following prisms:

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 Finding the Length of a Prism
1. The volume of a solid with uniform cross-section is 144 cm3. If the area of the cross-section is
14 cm2, calculate its length to 1 decimal place.

2.
The volume of the solid shown is 196 cm3.
40mm
Calculate:
70mm
a) the area of cross-section in cm2;
60mm b) the length of the solid in mm.

80mm

3.
The prism shown has a cross-sectional area
of a trapezium. Its volume is 2590 cm3.

Find the length of the solid to the nearest

cm.

4. A drop of oil of volume 2.5 cm3 is dropped on a flat surface and spreads out to form a pool of even
thickness and surface area 50 cm2. How thick is the oil in mm?

5. Calculate the exact number

of boxes that can be stacked
inside the van as shown
in the diagram.

6.

If the volume of the triangular prism shown is 580 cm3,

find its length to the nearest cm.

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 Surface Area & Volume of 3-D Shapes
1. Work out the surface areas of these cylinders.

2. Work out the surface areas of

these prisms.

3. A scout troop is making a tent of canvas

and a groundsheet out of PVC.

a) What area of canvas do they need for the

cover (including front and black flaps)?
b) What area of PVC do they need for the
groundsheet? Groundsheet

4. Find the volume of each prism.

5. Find the volume of each cylinder.

6. Find the volumes of the following triangular prisms.

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7. Find the volume of the following prisms with their given cross-sectional area.

8. Find the volume of the following prisms.

9. Find the volume of the following composite prisms.

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The Volume of a Pyramid

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1. Calculate the volume of the square-based pyramid shown below, giving your answer correct to 2
decimal places.

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2. The pyramid ABCDE shown below has a rectangular base. The vertex V is vertically above the centre
of the base. Calculate the volume of the pyramid to 1 decimal place.

3. Calculate the volume of the pyramids below:

a) b)

6.5𝑐𝑚

4. A rectangular-based pyramid has a volume of 160cm3. Its base dimensions are 4cm and 10cm.
Calculate the height of the pyramid.

5. A square-based pyramid has a base with side 15cm. Its volume is three times the area of the base.
Find the height of the pyramid.

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 Volume of a Pyramid
This is a square pyramid because it has a
square base. edge

It is also a right pyramid because the top

vertex is vertically above the centre of the
base. vertex
face

right square pyramid

Volume of Pyramid = 1 x area of base x perpendicular height

3

1. Find the volume of the pyramid 2. The Great Pyramid of Giza has a height of 147 m
below. and a square base of side 230 m. Find the volume of
E the Great Pyramid.
6cm

D C

4.5cm

A 8cm B

3.
E

The base of a pyramid is a horizontal

12m rectangle ABCD.
D C The vertex E is vertically above A.
AB = 15m, BC = 16m, AE = 12m.
16m
Find the volume of the pyramid.
A 15m B
U
4. The base of a pyramid is a square PQRS. The diagonals
of the square meet at T. The vertex U is vertically above
T. PQ = 8cm and PU = 12cm.
Calculate:
a) The lengths PR and PT;
b) the height TU; S R
c) the volume of the pyramid;
d) the angle the edge of the pyramid makes T
with the base PQRS.
P Q
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5. Find the volume of each of the following pyramids.

a) b) c)

d) e) f)

6. Calculate the volume of this toy house. 7. Find the height of this pyramid.

8. M is the centre of the square based pyramid shown.

Find:
a) the distance from A to B;
b) the distance from A to M;
c) the distance from M to T;
d) the volume of the pyramid.

9. Find the volume of the pyramid below.

10. A square based pyramid has a base area of

64 cm2. The distance from each of the base
corners to the top of the pyramid is 10 cm.
Calculate the volume of the pyramid.

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The Surface Area of a Pyramid

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1. Calculate the total surface area of the square-based pyramid below:

2. Calculate the surface area of the net of the square-based pyramid below. Give your answer to 2
decimal places.

3. M is a point on the edge SR of the square-based pyramid below, such that SM : MR = 1 : 1. The
perpendicular height TM to the edge SR is 8cm. Calculate the total surface area of the pyramid.

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4. Calculate the surface area of the following square-based pyramid.

5. ABCDE is a square-based pyramid, with E vertically above the centre of the base. M is the mid-
point of line AD. AM = 4.15m and the perpendicular height EM is 10.7m. Calculate the surface area
of the pyramid correct to 1 decimal place.

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 Total Surface Area of a Pyramid
1. E

EABCD is a right pyramid on a square base of side 10 cm.

The area of  ABE is 45 cm2.
Find the total surface area of the pyramid.
D C
___________________________________________

A B

2. Calculate the total surface area of the following square based pyramids.

a) b) c)

d) e) f)

3. A square based pyramid has a height of 7 m. The length of one of the sides of its base is 6 m.

Calculate:
a) the surface area of the pyramid;
b) the volume of the pyramid.

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4. VABCD is a right pyramid on a square base of side 16 cm.
V is the vertex of the pyramid and M is the midpoint of BC. V
VA = VB = VC = VD = 17 cm.

a) Calculate:

(i) the length of VM;

(ii) the area of  VBC; D C
(iii) the total surface area of the pyramid.
M
b) The volume of the pyramid is 1075.2 cm3. A B
Work out the perpendicular height of the
pyramid.

5. The diagram shows a square based pyramid.

The perpendicular height is 8 cm.

Calculate:
i. the total surface area;
ii. the volume of the pyramid.

6. Find the total surface area of each of the following pyramids.

a) b) c)

7. A square based pyramid has a height of 5 m. The area of its base is 64 m2. Calculate the surface
area and volume of the pyramid.

8. ABCDE is a square based pyramid of side 12 cm.

Its perpendicular height is 20 cm and T is the E
midpoint of the base ABCD.

Calculate:
20cm

a) the length of TC;

b) the length of the edge of the pyramid EC; D C
c) the total surface area of the pyramid; T
d) the volume of the pyramid; 12cm
e) the angle the edge EC makes with the base
of the pyramid ABCD. A 12cm B

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The volume of a Frustum of a Pyramid

Volume of Frustum of pyramid = Larger pyramid – Smaller pyramid cut off from top

1. Below is a frustum of a square-based pyramid. The square-base of the pyramid has side-length 5cm,
whereas the square-base of the frustum has side-length 3cm.
The height of the original square-based pyramid is 15cm and the height pf the frustum is 6cm.

Calculate the volume of the frustum.

2. Below is a frustum of a square-based pyramid. The pyramid has its top vertex directly above the
centre of the base. The pyramid has height 7.5m and base of side-length 8m. The top face of the
frustum has side-length 4m.

Work out the volume of the frustum.

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3. A frustum is cut from a square-based pyramid as shown below.
The height of the frustum is 7m.
The height if the pyramid on top of the frustum is 8.75m.
The large square base is 9m wide and the square top is 5m wide.

Calculate the volume of the frustum, giving your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

4. A section is cut from the top of a square-base pyramid of height 14cm to create a frustum as shown
below.
The base of the frustum has a width of 7cm and the top of the frustum has a width of 2cm.

Calculate the volume of the frustum.

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5. A frustum is made by removing a small square-based pyramid from a similar large square-based
pyramid as shown in the diagram below.

The height of the small pyramid is 15cm and the height of the large pyramid is 45cm.
The square-base of the large pyramid has side-length 39cm.

Work out the volume of the frustum.

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The Surface Area of a Cone

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1. Find the curved surface area of a cone with radius
4.3cm and slant height 9.6cm as shown in the
figure.
Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

2. Find the curved surface area of a cone with

radius 8cm and slant height 13cm as shown
in the figure.
Give your answer in terms of .

3. Find the curved surface area of a cone with

radius 4.3cm and slant height 6.2cm as shown
in the figure.
Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

4. Find the total surface area of a cone of radius

7cm and slant height 9cm as shown in the
figure.
Give your answer in terms of .

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5. Find the total surface area of a cone of radius
5.9cm and slant height 8.5cm as shown in the
figure.
Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

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 Curved Surface Area of a Cone

r = radius of base
h = perpendicular height of cone
l = slant height of cone

Curved Surface Area = rl

Total Surface Area = rl + r 2

1. A cone has a base radius of 4 cm and a slant height of 10 cm. Find:

a) the area of the curved surface;
b) the total surface area of the cone.

2. The base radius of a cone is 10 cm and its perpendicular height is 24 cm. Find:
a) its slant height;
b) its curved surface area;
c) its total surface area.

3. Find the curved surface area of cones with:

a) base radius 5 cm b) base radius 3 cm

slant height 8.2 cm slant height 6 cm

c) base radius 45 mm d) base radius 2.5 cm

slant height 30 mm slant height 30 mm

e) base radius 6.7 cm f) base radius 135 mm

slant height 10.5 cm slant height 18.5 cm

4. Find the curved surface area in terms of , of a cone with radius 3 cm and height 4 cm.

5. The curved surface area of a cone is 508 cm2. Find its radius if its slant height is 11 cm.

6. Find the total surface area of each cone:

a) b) c)

8cm 5.2cm 12cm

6cm 4cm 7.2cm

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The Volume of a Cone

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1. Find the volume of a cone with base radius 5.3cm
and perpendicular height 7.8cm as shown below.
Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

2. Find the volume of a cone with base radius 9cm

and perpendicular height 11cm.
Give your answer in terms of .

3. A container has the shape of a cone as shown below.

It has base radius of 60cm and perpendicular height
of 80cm.
Water fills the container at a rate of 9000cm3 per
minute.
How long does it take to fill the container to the
nearest minute?

4. Find the volume of the cone shown, correct to 3

significant figures.

5. A cone has a radius of 11cm.

It has a volume of 2000cm3.
Find the total surface area of the cone.
Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

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 Volume of a Cone

Volume of Cone = 1  base area  height

3

V = 1 r2 h
3

1. Find the volume of a cone with base radius 3.2 cm and perpendicular height 7.2 cm.

2. Find the volume of a cone with base diameter 18 cm and height 20 cm.

3. Find the volume of each of the following cones.

a) b) c)

7cm 17cm 52mm

4cm 6cm 10mm

4. Find the diameter of a cone with height 15 cm and volume 270 cm3.

5. Find the radius of a cone with height 6 cm and volume 50 cm3.

6. James is going to fill a paper cone with sweets. He can choose between cone X and cone Y.
Cone X has top radius 4 cm and height 8 cm.
Cone Y has top radius 8 cm and height 4 cm.

a) Which cone has the greater volume?

b) What is the difference in volume between cone X and cone Y?

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7. A cone of volume 20 000 cm3 has height 30 cm.
Find:
a) the radius of the cone to 2 decimal places;
b) the curved surface area of the cone to the nearest cm2.

8. Find the height of a cone with radius 10 cm and volume 2000 cm3.

9. A cone of volume 5000 cm3 has radius 8 cm.

Find the curved surface area of the cone.

10. Find the volume and total surface

area of this cone.

11. The solid shown is made up of two cones

having the same base radius of 4m and
different heights of 10m and 15m
respectively.
Find:
a. its volume;
b. its total surface area.

12.

Find the volume of the shaded part

of the solid shown in the figure.

7 cm

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 The Volume of a Frustum of a Cone

A frustum of a cone is the remaining bottom

part of the cone (having the shape of an
inverted bucket) after its top (upper smaller
cone) is cut off.

Volume of = Volume of – Volume of

Frustum Larger Cone Smaller Cone

Note:
The radius and height of the larger cone and the radius and height of the smaller
cone cut off, are always in the same ratio.

1. The original cone has base radius 6 cm and height 10 cm. The part cut off has base radius 3 cm and
height 5 cm. Find the volume of the remaining frustum.

2. The diagram represents a large cone of height 6 cm and base diameter 18 cm.

Diagrams NOT drawn accurately

The large cone is made by placing a small cone A of height 2 cm and base diameter 6 cm on top of
frustum B.
Calculate the volume of the frustum B.
Give your answer in terms of .
(Edexcel Ltd., 2003)

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3. A cone has height 10 cm and base radius 4 cm.
A smaller cone with height 5 cm is cut off the top of the cone thus forming a frustum from the
remaining solid.

a) What is the radius of the base of the smaller cone?

b) Calculate the volume of the frustum.

4. Tony cuts a large wooden cone into a smaller cone and a frustum
as shown in the diagram.
The smaller cone has a diameter of 6 cm and height of 10 cm.

a) Calculate the volume of the frustum.

b) Calculate the curved surface area of the frustum.
c) The total surface area of the frustum.

5. Calculate the volume of the frustum that remains when the top of a cone is removed as shown in
the diagram below.

Radius of the top of frustum = 6 cm

Radius of the base of frustum = 9 cm

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6. The diagram represents a metal cone of height 90 m made in two
parts, labelled T and S. The top part, T, has a height of 45 m.

a) Given that the volume of S and T together is 10 500π m³,

calculate the volume of S.

(NB The radius and height of each cone are in the same ratio.)

A second cone is also made up of two parts, A and B. The radius

of the top part is 20 m, and the radius of the base of B is 30 m.
The height of the bottom part of B is 120 m.

b) Calculate the height, H m, of the cone.

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The Cylinder

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The Volume of a Cylinder

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1. Find the volume of the following cylinders, giving your answers to 1 decimal place:

a) b) c)

2. Find the volume of the following cylinders, giving your answer in terms of :

a) b) c)

3. The diagram below shows a container in the shape of a cylinder.

This container is to be filled with water from a bucket. The bucket’s capacity is 12 litres.
How many buckets of water are needed to fill the container?

(1 litre = 1000cm3)

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The Surface Area of a Cylinder

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1. Calculate the curved surface area of the cylinder
shown, giving your answer correct to 1 decimal
place.

2. Calculate the curved surface area of the cylinder

shown, giving your answer in terms of .

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3. Calculate the total surface area of the cylinder
shown, giving your answer correct to 3
significant figures.

4. Calculate the total surface area of the cylinder

shown, giving your answer in terms of .

5. Calculate the total surface area of the cylinder

shown, giving your answer correct to 3
significant figures.

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 The Cylinder

Rolling a rectangle produces a

cylinder

1. A closed cylinder has a radius of 6 cm and a height of 10 cm. Find:

a) the area of its curved surface;
b) the total surface area.

2. Find the area of the paper label covering the side of a cylindrical soup tin of height 9.6 cm and radius
3.3 cm. The label has an overlap of 1 cm.

3a) Find the volume of a cylinder of radius 9.8 cm and height 6.7 cm.
b) What is its capacity in litres? (1 litre = 1000 cm3)

4. Find the radius of a cylinder of volume 72 cm3 and height 9 cm.

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 The Cylinder

1. Find the volume and total surface area of each cylinder.

2. Find the capacity in litres of the oil drum shown.

(1 litre = 1000 cm3)

3. Cylinders are cut along the axis of symmetry to form the solids below. Find the volume of each of
the following solids.

4. A cylindrical water tank has internal diameter 40cm and height 50cm and a cylindrical mug has
internal diameter 8cm and height 10cm. If the tank is initially full, how many mugs can be filled
from the tank?

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The Sphere

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The Sphere

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 The Sphere

1. Calculate the volume of a sphere with radius 12cm.

Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

2. Calculate the volume of a sphere with diameter

30cm. Give your answer in terms of .

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3. Calculate the volume of a hemisphere with radius
4cm. Give your answer to 2 decimal places.

4. Calculate the surface area of a sphere with a

diameter of 20cm. Give your answer in terms of .

5. Calculate the total surface area of a hemisphere

with radius 4cm. Give your answer to 3
significant figures.

6. A tennis ball has a radius of 3.4cm as shown in the diagram below.

Each tennis ball is covered in felt.

a) Calculate the area of the felt required to cover the ball to the nearest square centimetre.
b) Felt costs Euro 3.99 per square metre. How much would it cost to cover 2000 of these balls in
felt? Give your answer to the nearest Euro.

7. A sphere has a surface area of 1000m2. Calculate its volume. Give your answer to 3 significant
figures.

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8. A container has the shape of a hemisphere with radius 35cm as shown in the diagram below.
Sand fills the container at a rate of 5000cm3 per minute.
How long does it take to fill the container? Give your answer to the nearest minute.

9. The volume of a sphere is 3500 cm3. Find its radius to 1 decimal place.

10. The surface area of a sphere is 400 cm2. Find its radius to 2 decimal places.

11. A sphere has a volume of 40,000cm3. Find its surface area to the nearest cm2.

12. Find the total surface area of the hemisphere shown

in the diagram.
Give your answer in terms of .

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 The Sphere

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 Compound Shapes

1. Charlie made a model rocket from a cylinder with

height 12 cm and a cone with vertical height 3.2 cm.
3.2cm

The radius of the cylinder and the cone is 1.7 cm.

Find:
(i) the total surface area of the rocket;
(ii) the volume of the rocket.
12cm

1.7cm

2. A toy consists of a cylinder of diameter 6 cm 8cm

‘sandwiched’ between a hemisphere and a cone of
the same diameter. If the cone is of height 8 cm and 6cm
the cylinder is of height 10 cm, find:
(i) the total surface area of the toy; 10cm
(ii) the volume of the toy.

3. Calculate the curved surface area of the solid shown.

The solid consists of a cylinder of height 15 cm
attached to two hemispherical ends of diameter 6
cm.

4. Calculate the total surface area and

volume of wood in the rolling pin with
hemispherical ends as shown in the
diagram.

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5. The salt container shown in the figure is made up of a
hemispherical top attached to a cylindrical base of
diameter 3 cm. The total height of the container is 5
cm.
Calculate:
(i) the total surface area of the salt container;
(ii) the volume of the salt container.

6. A square based pyramid of side 4 cm stands upon a

square based cuboid with the same base dimensions
and a height of 6 cm. The perpendicular height of each
of the triangular faces of the pyramid is 5 cm. Find the
total surface area of this solid as shown in the
diagram.

A
7. Cone 1 and cone 2 have an identical circular base and
are stuck together as shown in the diagram to make Cone 1
4cm
up a stainless steel ornament. The slant height AB of
Cone 1 is 4 cm, whereas the slant height BC of cone 2
is 3 cm. The total height of the ornament is 5 cm and
the height of cone 1 is 3.2 cm. Calculate: B D 5cm

(i) the total surface area;

(ii) the volume of the stainless steel ornament. 3cm
Cone 2

8. An ice-cream cone has a height of 15 cm and a radius

of 10 cm. Ice-cream fills the cone completely and
forms a hemisphere on the top of the cone. Ignoring
the thickness of the cone, calculate the volume of ice-
cream.

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 Melting and Recasting

In melting and recasting it is to be assumed that:

Volume of solid melted = Volume of solid recast

1. A solid metal cube of side 6 cm is recast into a solid sphere. Find the radius of this sphere.

2. A solid metal sphere of radius 10 cm is recast into many smaller spheres of radius 2 cm. Calculate the
number of smaller spheres.

3. A sphere of radius 5 cm is melted down and made into a solid cube. Find the length of a side of the
cube.

4. A solid metal sphere with radius 3 cm is melted down and reformed as a cylinder. The base radius of
the cylinder is 3 cm. Find the height of the cylinder.

5. Ten solid metal spheres each of radius 2.5 cm are melted down and recast into a cone of height 12
cm. Find the radius of the cone.

6. One thousand lead shot (spheres) of diameter ¼ cm are melted down and recast into a cube. Find a
side length of the cube.

7. Five solid metal cones with base radius 10 cm and height 20 cm are melted down and recast into a
pyramid of height 15 cm. The base of the pyramid is a square.
Find the side length of the base of the pyramid.

8. A metal square based pyramid is melted down and made into spherical balls for a game. The pyramid
is 13 cm high and the base is 12.3 cm wide. The balls each have a radius of 1.3 cm.
How many balls can be made?

9. Twenty lead spheres of radius 1.2 cm are melted down and recast into a cuboid of length 8 cm and
width 4 cm.
a) Find the volume of lead involved.
b) How high is the cuboid?

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 Level Rise

When finding the level rise of a liquid after an object is immersed:

Volume of liquid displaced = Volume of solid immersed

1. A sphere of radius 2 cm is dropped into some water contained in a cylindrical vessel of radius 4 cm.
If the sphere is completely immersed, find the rise in water level.

2. A solid cone of height 4 cm and base radius 2 cm is lowered into a cylindrical jar of radius 6 cm which
contains enough water to submerge the cone completely. Find the rise in water level, giving your
answer in mm correct to 1 decimal place.

3. A stone ornament in the shape of a pyramid with a square base of side 2 cm and perpendicular height
6 cm, is dropped in some water contained in a cubical recipient with base dimensions 4 cm by 10
cm. Find the rise of water level in mm.

4. Milk is poured from a carton into a jug, as shown in the diagram below.
The carton is a cuboid measuring 19 cm by 8.8 cm by 6 cm.
The jug is a cylinder with a diameter of 9.4 cm.

What is the depth of the milk in the jug when 75% of the milk carton has been poured in?

5. 100 ball bearings with radius 5mm are dropping into a cylindrical can, which is half full with oil. The
height of the can is 20cm and the radius is 8cm.
By how much does the level of the oil rise?

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Some Important Formula Derivations

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Deriving Area of triangle A = ½ ab sin c

Deriving CSA and TSA of cylinder

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