Mensuration Formulas
Mensuration Formulas
PYTHAGORAS’ THEOREM
For all the right angled triangles “ the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the
sum of the squares on the other two sides”
𝑐 2 = 𝑎2 + 𝑏 2
𝒄 = 𝑎2 + 𝑏 2 𝒃 = 𝑐 2 − 𝑎2 𝒂 = 𝑐 2 − 𝑏2
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Square a
a a
Area = side × side perimeter = 4 × side
a = a×a =4×a
Parallelogram Area = b × h
perimeter = 2(a + b )
Area = ab sin 𝜃
where a, b are sides and 𝜃 is
the included angle
Triangle
1
Area = × 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒 × 𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑡
2
1
Area = 2 𝑎𝑏 𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝐶 perimeter = a + b + c
= 𝑠 𝑠 − 𝑎 𝑠 − 𝑏 (𝑠 − 𝑐)
𝑎+𝑏+𝑐
where s =
2
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Trapezium
perimeter = Sum of all
1
Area = 2 𝑎 + 𝑏 sides
Circle
r
Area = r2 circumference = 2 r
Semicircle 1 2 1
Area = r perimeter = d + d
r 2 2
Sector 𝑟
Area = r 360 length of an arc = 2 r
2
𝜃 360
Sphere 4 3
Volume = πr
Surface area = 4πr2 3
Pyramid 1
Volume = × base area ×
Base area + area of the shapes in 3
the sides perpendicular height
Cuboid
Cube
Surface area = 6𝑙 2 Volume = 𝑙 3
2 3
Hemisphere Curved surface area = = 2 r2 Volume = r
3
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