NIKHIL SAXENA 1

Class x mathematics
Chapter: Surface Area and Volumes
TOPIC: CUBOID, CUBE, CYLINDER, CONE, HEMISPHERE, SPHERE.
1. The radii of the bases of a cylinder and a cone are in the ratio 3: 4 and their heights are in the ratio
2:3. What is the ratio of their volumes?
2. If the heights of two right circular cones are in the ratio 1: 2 and the perimeters of their bases are in
the ratio 3: 4, what is the ratio of their volumes?
3. If a cone and a sphere have equal radii and equal volumes. What is the ratio of the diameter of the
sphere to the height of the cone?
4. A cone, a hemisphere and a cylinder stand on equal bases and have the same height. What is the ratio
of their volumes?
5. The radii of two cylinders are in the ratio 3: 5 and their heights are in the ratio 2: 3. What is the ratio
of their curved surface areas?
6. Two cubes have their volumes in the ratio 1: 27. What is the ratio of their surface areas?
7. Two right circular cylinders of equal volumes have their heights in the ratio 1: 2. What is the ratio of
their radii?
8. If the volumes of two cones are in the ratio 1: 4 and their diameters are in the ratio 4: 5, then write
the ratio of their weights.
9. A sphere and a cube have equal surface areas. What is the ratio of the volume of the sphere to that of
the cube?
10. What is the ratio of the volume of a cube to that of a sphere which will fit inside it?
11. What is the ratio of the volumes of a cylinder, a cone and a sphere, if each has the same diameter and
same height?
12. The surface area of a sphere is 616 cm2. Find its radius. [CBSE 2008]
13. A cylinder and a cone are of the same base radius and of same height. Find the ratio of the cylinder to
that of the cone. [CBSE 2009]
14. The slant height of the frustum of a cone is 5 cm. If the difference between the rad circular ends is 4
cm, write the height of the frustum. [CBSE 2010]
15. Volume and surface area of a solid hemisphere are numerically equal. What is the hemisphere?
[CBSE 2017]
16. A solid metallic sphere of radius 3 cm is melted and recast into the shape of a solid cylinder of radius 2
cm. Find the height of the cylinder. [CBSE 2022]
17. The radii of two cones are in the ratio 2: 1 and their volumes are equal. What is the ratio of their
heights?
18. Two cones have their heights in the ratio 1: 3 and radii 3: 1. What is the ratio of their volumes?
[CBSE 2020]
19. A hemisphere and a cone have equal bases. If their heights are also equal, then what is the ratio of
their curved surfaces?
20. A sphere of maximum volume is cut-out from a solid hemisphere of radius r. What is the ratio of the
volume of the hemisphere to that of the cut-out sphere?
21. A metallic hemisphere is melted and recast in the shape of a cone with the same base radius R
as that of the hemisphere. If H is the height of the cone, then write the value of H / R .
22. A right circular cone and a right circular cylinder have equal base and equal height. If the radius of the
base and height are in the ratio 5: 12, write the ratio of the total surface area of the cylinder to that of
the cone.
23. A cylinder, a cone and a hemisphere are of equal base and have the same height. What is the ratio of
their volumes?
24. A solid piece of metal in the form of a cuboid of dimensions 11 cm × 7 cm × 7 cm is melted to form a
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number of a solid spheres of radii cm each. find the value of n.
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25.A toy is in the shape of a right circular cylinder with a hemisphere on one end and a cone on the other.
The radius and height of the cylindrical part are 5 cm and 13 cm respectively. The radii of the
hemispherical and conical parts are the same as that of the cylindrical part, Find the surface area of the
toy if the total height of the toy is 30 cm. [CBSE 2002]
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26. A cylindrical tub of radius 5 cm and length 9.8 cm is full of water. A solid in the form of a right circular
cone mounted on a hemisphere is immersed in the tub. If the radius of the hemisphere is 3.5 cm and
height of the cone outside the hemisphere is 5 cm, find the volume of the water left in the tub.
[CBSE 2000C]
27.A solid is composed of a cylinder with hemispherical ends. If the whole length of the solid is 104 cm
and the radius of each of the hemispherical ends is 7 cm, find the cost of polishing its surface at the
rate of Rs. 10 per dm2. [CBSE 2006C]
28. A vessel in the form of a hollow hemisphere mounted by a hollow cylinder. The diameter of the
hemisphere is 14 cm and the total height of the vessel is 13 cm. Find the inner surface area of the
vessel. [CBSE 2013]
29. A toy is in the form of a cone of radius 3.5 cm mounted on a hemisphere of same radius. The total
height of the toy is 15.5 cm. Find the total surface area of the toy. [CBSE 2013]
30. A cylindrical vessel with internal diameter 10 cm and height 10.5 cm is full of water. A solid cone of
base diameter 7 cm and height 6 cm is completely immersed in water. Find the value of water (i)
displaced out of the cylinder. (ii) left in the cylinder. [CBSE 2009]
31. A hemispherical depression is cut out from one face of a cubical wooden block of edge 21 cm, such
that the diameter of the hemisphere is equal to the edge of the cube. Determine the volume and total
surface area of the remaining block. [CBSE 2010]
32. A toy is in the form of a hemisphere surmounted by a right circular cone of the same base radius as
that of the hemisphere. If the radius of the base of the cone is 21 cm and its volume is 2/3 of the
volume of the hemisphere, calculate the height of the cone and the surface area of the toy. [CBSE 10]
33. A solid is in the shape of a cone surmounted on a hemisphere, the radius of each of them is being
3.5 cm and the total height of solid is 9.5 cm. Find the volume of the solid. [CBSE 2012]
34. The largest possible sphere is carved out of a wooden solid cube of side 7 cm. Find the volume of the
wood left. [CBSE 2014]
35. From a solid cylinder of height 2.8 cm and diameter 4.2 cm, a conical cavity of the same height and
same diameter is hollowed out. Find the total surface area of the remaining solid. [CBSE 2014]
36. The largest cone is carved out from a solid cube of side 21 cm. Find the volume of the remaining solid.
[CBSE 2015]
37. A circus tent is in the shape of a cylinder surmounted by a conical top of same diameter, If their
common diameter is 56 m, the height of the cylindrical part is 6 m and the total height of the tent
above the ground is 27 m, find the area oif the canvas used in making the tent. [CBSE 2017]
38. A cone of maximum size is carved out from a cube of edge 14 cm. Find the surface area of the cone
and of the remaining solid left out after the cone carved out.
39. Marbles of diameter 1.4 cm are dropped into a cylindrical beaker of diameter 7 cm containing some
water. Find the number of marbles that should be dropped into the beaker so that the water level rises
by 5.6 cm.
40. A solid wooden toy is in the form of a hemisphere surmounted by a cone of a cone of same radius.
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The radius of hemisphere is 3.5 cm and the total wood used in the making of toy is 166 cm3. Find the
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height of the toy. Also, find the cost of painting the hemispherical part of the toy at the rate of Rs. 10
per cm2. [CBSE 2015]

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