Surface Area and Volume PDF
Surface Area and Volume PDF
Important Question
1. The shape of an ice-cream is a combination of?
2. A circus tent is cylindrical upto a height of 3m and conical above it. If the diameter of the base is 105m and
the slant height of the conical part is 53m, find the total canvas used in making the tent.
3. A solid is the form of a cylinder with hemispherical ends. The total height of the solid is 19cm and the
diameter of the cylinder is 7cm. Find the volume and total surface area of the solid. (use pi = 22/7).
4. A solid cylinder of radius r and height h is placed over other cylinder of same height and radius. The total
surface area of the shape so formed is.
5. The capacity of a cylindrical vessel with a hemispherical portion raised upwards at the bottom as show in the
figure is.
6. Two cubes each of 10cm edge are joined end to end. Find the surface area of the resulting cuboid.
7. 2 cubes each of volume 64cm^3 are joined end to end. Find the surface area of the resulting cuboid.
8. From a solid cylinder whose height is 2.4cm and diameter 1.4cm, a conical cavity of same height and same
distance is hollowed out. Find the total surface area of the remaining solid to the nearest cm^2.
9. A wooden article was made by scooping out a hemisphere from each end of a solid cylinder as shown in fig.
If the height of the cylinder is 10cm, and its’ base is of 3.5cm . Find the total surface and of the article.
10. The decorative block shown in fig, is made up of two sides – a cube and a hemisphere. The base of the block
is cube with edge 5cm, and the a hemisphere fixes on the top has diameter of 4.2cm. Find the total surface
area of the block. (Take pi= 22/7).
11. In the fig. from a cuboid solid metallic block of dimension 15cm * 10cm * 5cm, a cylindrical hole of diameter
7cm is drilled out. Find the surface area of the remaining block. (take pi= 22/7).
12. A wooden toy rocket is in the shape of a cone mounted on the cylinder, as shown in fig. the height of the
entire rocket is 26cm . while the height of the conical part is 6cm. the base of the conical portion has a
diameter of the cylindrical portion is 3cm. if the conical portion is to be painted orange and the cylindrical
portion yellow, find the area of the rocket painted with each of these colours. (take pi-=3.14).
13. A tent is in the shape of cylinder surmounted by a conical top. If the height and diameter of the cylindrical
part are 2.1 m and 4m respectively, and the slant height of the top is 2.8m, find the area of the canvas used
for making the tent. Also, find the cost of the canvas of the tent at the rate of 5000per m^2. Note that the
base of the tent will not be covered with canvas.
14. A solid iron pole consists of cylinder of height 220cm and base diameter 24cm, which is surmounted by
another cylinder of height 60cm and radius 8cm. find the mass of the pole, given that 1cm^3 of iron has
approximately 8g mass. (use pi=3.14).
15. Rachel, an engineering student was asked to make a model in her workshop, which was shaped like a
cylinder with two cones attached at its two ends, using thin aluminium sheet. The diameter of the model is
3cm and its lengths is 12cm. if each cone has a height of 2cm, find the volume of air conditioned in the
model that Rachel made.
16. A toy is in the form of hemisphere surmounted by a right circular cone of the same radius as that of the
hemisphere. If the radius of the base of the cone is 21cm and its volume is 2/3 of the volume of the
hemisphere, calculate the height of the cone and surface area of the toy. (use pi = 22/7).
17. A Gulab Jamun when completely ready for eating contains sugar syrup up to about 30% of its volume. Find
approximately how much syrup would be found in 45 Gulab Jamun shaped like a cylindrical with two
hemispherical ends, if the complete lengths of each of the Gulab Jamun is 5cm and its diameter is 2.8cm.
18. A pen stant made of wood is in the shape of cuboid with four conical depressions to hold pens. The
dimensions of the cuboid are 15cm by 10cm by 3.5cm. the radius of each of the depressions is 0.5cm and the
depth is 1.4cm. find the volume of wood in the entire stand.
19. A solid consisting od a right circular cone of height 120cm and radius 60cm standing on a hemisphere of
radius 60 cm is placed upright in a right circular cylinder full of water such that it touches the bottom. Find
the volume of water left in the cylinder, if the radius of the cylinder is 60cm and its height is 180cm.
20. Mayank made a bird-bath for his garden in the shape of a cylinder with a hemisphere depression at one end
in the fig. the height of the cylinder is 1.45m and its radius is 30cm. find the total surface area of the bird-
bath (Take pi = 22/7).
21. A hemisphere depression is cut out from one face of the cubical wooden block such that the diameter of the
hemisphere is equal to the edge of the cube. Determine the surface area of the remaining solid.
22. A juice seller was serving his customers using glass. The inner diameter of the cylindrical glass was 5cm, but
the bottom of the glass had a hemisphere raised portion which reduced the capacity of the glass. If the
height of the glass was 10cm, find what the apparent capacity of the glass was and what the actual capacity
was (use pi = 3.14).
23. A vessel is in the form of an inverted cone. Its height is 8cm and the radius of its top, which is open, is 5 cm.
it is filled with water upto the brim. When lead shots each of which is a sphere of radius 0.5cm are dropped
into the vessel one-forth of the water flows out. Find the number of lead shots dropped in the vessel.
24. A cylindrical glass tube with radius 10cm has water upto a height of 9cm. a metal cube of 8cm is immersed
completely. Bs how much the water level will rise in the glass tube?
25. A sphere of diameter 6cm is dropped in a right circular cylindrical vessel party filled with water. The
diameter of the cylindrical vessel is 12cm. if the sphere is completely submerged in water, by how much will
the level of water raised in the cylindrical vessel?
26. A spherical glass vessel has a cylindrical nack 8cm long, 2cm in diameter; the diameter of the spherical part is
8.5cm. by measuring the amount of water it holds, a child finds its volume to be 345cm^3. Check whether
she is correct, taking the above as the inside measurement, and pi= 3.14.
27. Two cubes have their volumes in the ratio 1:27. Find the ratio of their surface area.
28. Two cones have their heights in the ratio 1:3 and radii in the ratio 3:1. What is the ratio of their volumes?
29. A solid is in the shape of a cone mounted on a hemispherical of same base radius the curved surface area of
the hemispherical part and the conical part are equal, then find the ratio of the radius and the height of the
conical part.
30. The sum of the radius of base and height of a solid right circular cylinder is 37cm. if the total surface area of
the solid cylinder is 1628 sq cm, find the volume of the cylinder. (use pi = 22/7).
31. Two cones of equal height have their radii in the ratio 3:2. The ratio of their volume will be equal to?
32. A cone and a cylinder have the same radii but the height of the cone is 3 times that of the cylinder. Find the
ratio of their volumes.
33. The volume of a right circular cylinder with the height equal to the radius is 176/7 cm^3. Find the height of
the cylinder.