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Mensuration Practice Sheet

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions related to mensuration and geometry. The questions involve calculating areas and volumes of basic shapes like spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes and finding unknown side lengths or radii given other measurements.

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Mensuration Practice Sheet

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TOPIC: MENSURATION

9. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 72√3


1. A right circular cylinder is to be made out of a cm. Find its height.
metal sheet such that the sum of its height and (a) 63m (b) 36m (c) 18m (d) 24m
radius does not exceed 9cm can have an area of
maximum. 10. The whole surface area of a rectangular block
(a) 54π cm2 (b) 108π cm2 (c) 81π cm2 (d) 44π cm2 is 8788cm2. If length, breadth and height are in
2. There are five consecutive squares. If the area the ratio of 4:3:2 .find the length.
of the circle inside the smallest square is 77cm 2 (a) 26cm (b) 52cm (c) 104cm (d) 13cm
and the distance between the corresponding
corners of consecutive squares is 1.5 cm2, find the 11. Three metal cubes with edges 6cm, 8cm, 10cm
difference in the areas of the outermost and respectively are melted together and formed into
innermost squares. a single cube. Find the side of the resulting cube.
(a) 140 (b) 200 (c) 250 (d) 240 (a) 11cm (b) 12cm (c) 13cm (d) 8cm

3. A spherical solid of radius 4cm is to be divided 12. A silver wire is bent in the form of a square
into eight equal parts by cutting it in halves along encloses an area of 484 cm 2. Now if the same wire
the same axis. Find the surface area of each of the is bent to form a circle, the area of enclosed by it
final piece. would be
(a) 54 π (b) 24 π (c) 14 π (d) 20 π (a) 308cm2(b) 196 cm2 (c) 616 cm2 (d) 88 cm2

4. A solid sphere is melted and smaller spheres of 13. A closed wooden box measures externally
equal radii are formed. 10% of the volume of the 10cm long, 8cm broad and 6cm high. Thickness of
sphere is lost in the process. The smaller sphere the wood is 0.5cm. Find the volume of wood used.
has a radius that is 1/9th the larger sphere. If 10 (a) 230 (b) 165 (c) 330 (d) 300
litres of paint is needed to paint the larger sphere,
how many litres is needed to paint all the smaller 14. In the given diagram, a rope is wound round
spheres? the outside of a circular drum whose diameter is
(a) 90 (b) 900 (c) 810 (d) 81 70cm and a bucket is tied to the other end of the
rope. Find the number of revolutions made by the
5. A solid wooden toy in the shape of a right drum if the bucket is raised by 11m.
circular cone is mounted on a hemisphere. If the (a) 10 (b) 5 (c) 2.5 (d) 5.5
radius of the hemisphere is 4.2cm and the total
height of the toy is 10.2cm, find the volume of the
wooden toy.
(a) 104 cm2 (b) 162 cm2 (c) 427 cm2 (d) 266 cm2

6. A vessel is in the form of an inverted cone. Its


depth is 8cm and the diameter of its top, which is
open, is 10cm. It is filled with water up to the
brim. When bullets, each of which is a sphere of
radius 0.5cm, are dropped into the vessel ¼ of the 15. In the adjacent figure, find the area of the
water flows out. Find the number of bullets shaded region.
dropped in the vessel.
(a) 50 (b) 100 (c) 150 (d) 200

7. A sphere of diameter 12.6cm is melted and cast


into a right circular cone of height 25.2cm. Find
the diameter of the base of the cone.
(a) 158.76 (b) 79.38 (c) 39.64 (d) none of these
(a) 15.28cm2(b) 61.14cm2(c) 30.57cm2(d) 40.76cm2
8. A cone and a hemisphere have equal bases and
equal volumes. Find the ratio of their heights.

(a) 1:2 (b) 2:1 (c) 3:1 (d) none of these

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