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VOLUME & SURFACE AREAS

Formulae:
1. Cuboid: Let, Length = l, breadth = b and height = h units.
(i) Volume of cuboid = (1 b h) cubic units.
(ii) Whole surface of cuboid = 2 (lb + bh + lh) sq. units.
(iii) Diagonal of cuboid = l2 + b2 + h2 units.
2. Cube: Let each edge (or side) of a cube be a units. Then:
(i) Volume of the cube = a3 cubic units.
(ii) Whole surface of the cube = (6a2) units.
(iii) Diagonal of the cube = (3 a) units.
3. Cylinder: Let the radius of the base of a cylinder be r units and its height (or length) be h units. Then:
(i) Volume of the cylinder = (r2h) cu. units.
(ii) Curved surface area of the cylinder = (2 rh) sq. units.
(iii) Total surface area of the cylinder = (2rh + 2r2) sq. units.
4. Sphere: Let the radius of a sphere be r units. Then :
(i) Volume of the sphere : (4/3 r3) cu. units.
(ii) Surface area of the sphere = (4/3 r3) cu. units.
(iii) Volume of a hemi sphere (2/3 r3) cu.units.
(iv) Curved surface area of the hemisphere = (2 r2) sq. units.
(v) Whole surface area of the hemisphere = (3 r2) sq. units.
5. Cone: Let r be the radius of the base, h the height and l the slant height of a cone. Then:
(i) Slant height, l = h2 + r2.
(ii) Volume of the cone = (1/3 r2 h) cu. units.
(iii) Curved surface area of the cone :
= (rl) sq. units. = (r r2 + h2) sq. units.
(iv) Total surface area of the cone = (rl + r2) sq. units.
EXAMPLES
Ex. 1. Find the volume, surface area and the length of diagonal of a cuboid is 12 m long, 9 m broad and 8
m high.
Ex. 2. Find the length of the longest pole that can be placed in a room 5 m long, 4 m broad and 3 m high.
Ex. 3. The diagonal of a cube is 4 3 m. Find its volume and surface area.
Ex. 4. The surface area of a cube is 384 cm2. Find its volume.
Ex. 5. A wall 8 m long, 6 m high and 22.5 cm thick is made up of bricks each measuring 25 cm 11.25
6 cm. Find the number of bricks required to build the wall.
Ex. 6. Three cubes of sides 6 cm, 8 cm and 1 cm are melted ot form a new cube. Find the length of the
edge of the new cube.
Ex. 7. The capacity of a cylindrical tank is 6160 m3. If the radius of its base is 14 m, find the depth of the
tank.
Ex. 8. A powder tin has a square base with side 8 cm and height 14 cm. Another tin has a circular base
with diameter 8 cm and height 14 cm. Find the difference in their capacities.
Ex. 9. Find the volume and the surface area of a sphere of diameter 42 cm.
Ex. 10. Find the volume, curved surface area and the total surface area of hemisphere of raidus 21 cm.
Ex. 11. Find the volume, curved surface area and the total surface area of a right circular cylinder of
length 80 cm with diameter of the base 7 cm.
Ex. 12. A well with 14 m inside diameter is dug 8 m deep. The earth taken out of it has been evently spread
all around it to a width of 21 m to form an embarkment. Find the height of the embankment.

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Ex. 13. A copper sphere of diameter 18 cm is drawn into a wire of diameter 4 mm. Find the length of the
wire.
Ex. 14. How many bullets can be made out of lead cylinder 28 cm high and 6 cm radius, each bullet being
1.5 cm in diameter?
Ex. 15. Find the number of lead balls of diameter 1 cm each that can be made from a sphere of diameter
16 cm.
Ex. 16. A cone is 8.4 cm high and the radius of its base is 2.1 cm. It is melted and recast into a sphere.
Find the radius of the sphere.
Ex. 17. The height of a cone is 28 cm and radius of its base is 21 cm. Find the slant height, volume, curved
surface area and whole surface area of the cone.
Ex. 18. Find the area of the iron sheet required to prepare a cone 24 cm high with base radius 7 cm.
Ex. 19. A closed wooden box with dimensions 80 cm 60 cm 40 cm is made of 2 cm thick wood. If 1
cm3 of wood weighs 10 gms, Find its weight of the empty box.
Ex. 20. How many iron rods, each of length 7 m and diameter 2 cm can be made out of 0.88 cm cubic
metre of iron?
Answers: 1. 17; 2. 7.05; 3. 96, 4. 512; 5. 6400; 6. 9; 7. 10; 8. 192; 9. 5544; 10. 4158; 11. 1837; 12.
53.3; 13. 243m; 14. 1792; 15. 4096; 16. 2.1; 17. 3696; 18. 704; 19. 387.84; 20. 400
EXERCISE
1. The surface area of a cube of side 27 cm, in sq cm, is:
(a) 2916
(b) 729 (c) 4374
(d) 19683
2. The surface area of a cuboid 22 cm by 12 cm by 7.5 cm, in cubic cm, is:
(a) 1980
(b) 2076
(c) 1038
(d) none of these
3. The surface area of a cube is 726 sq m. Its volume, in cubic m, is:
(a) 1300
(b) 1331
(c) 1452
(d) 1542
4. The volume of a cube is 512 cubic cm. It surface area, in sq cm, is:
(a) 64 (b) 256 (c) 384 (d) 512
5. The length of the diagonal of a cuboid 30 cm long, 24 cm broad and 18 cm high, is:
(a) 30 m
(b) 152 m (c) 60 cm (d) 302 cm
6. The length of the longest rod that can be placed in a room 20 m long, 16 m broad and 12 m high, is:
(a) 20 m
(b) 16.4 m (c) 48 m (d) 28.2 m
7. The maximum length of a pencil that can be kept in a rectangular box of dimensions 8 cm 6 cm 2
cm, is:
(a) 2 13 cm (b) 214 cm
(c) 2 26 cm (d) 10 2 cm
8. The length of diagonal of a cube is (14 3) cm. The volume of the cube is:
(a) 2744 3 cm3
(b) 2744 cm3 (c) 588 cm3
(d) 3528 cm3
9. The length of longest pole that can be placed on the floor of a room is 10 m and the length of the longest
pole that can be placed in the room is 10 2 m. The height of the room is:
(a) 6 m (b) 7.5 m
(c) 8 m (d) 10 m
10. The length of longest rod that can fit in a cubical vessel of side 10 cm, is:
(a) 10 cm
(b) 10 2 cm (c) 10 3 cm
(d) none of these
11. If the length of diagonal of a cube is 8 3 cm, then its surface area is:
(a) 512 cm2 (b) 384 cm2
(c) 192 cm2 (d) 768 cm2

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12. If the length, breadth and height of a cuboid are in the ratio of
6 : 5 : 4 and if the total surface area is 33300 cm2, then the length, breadth and height in cms, are
respectively:
(a) 90, 85, 60
(b) 85, 75, 60
(c) 90, 75, 70
(d) 90, 75, 60
13. The sum of length, breadth and depth of a cuboid is 19 cm and its diagonal is 5 5 cm. It surface area
is:
(a) 361 cm2
(b) 125 cm2
(c) 236 cm2
(d) 486 cm2
14. Give that 1 cubic cm of marble weighs 25 gms, the weight of a marble block 28 cm in width and 5 cm
thick is 112 kg. The length of the block is:
(a) 36 cm
(b) 37.5 cm (c) 32 cm
(d) 26.5 cm
15. A wooden box of dimensions 8 m 7 m 6 m is to carry rectangular boxes of dimensions 8 cm 7
cm 6 cm. The maximum number of boxes that can be carried in 1 wooden box, is:
(a) 1200000
(b) 1000000
(c) 9800000
(d) 7500000
16. The number of small cubes with edges of 10 cm that can be accommodated in a cubical box of 1 metre
edge, is:
(a) 10 (b) 100 (c) 1000
(d) 10000
17. The volume of a wall, 5 times as high as it is broad and 8 times as long as it is high, is 12.8 m3. The
breadth of the wall is:
(a) 30 cm
(b) 40 cm (c) 22.5 cm
(d) 25 cm
18. The area of the base of a rectangular tank is 6500 sq. cm. and the volume of water contained in it is
2.6 cubic metres. The depth of water is:
(a) 3.5 m
(b) 4 m
(c) 5 m
(d) 8 m
19. A metal sheet 27 cm long, 8 cm broad and 1 cm thick is melted into a cube. The difference between the
surface areas of two solids, is:
(a) 284 cm2 (b) 286 cm2
(c) 296 cm2 (d) 300 cm2
20. Bricks are worth Rs. 750 per 1000 and their length, breadth and heights 25 cm, 12.5 cm and 7.5 cm
respectively. The cost of bricks required so build a wall 200 m long, 1.8 m high and 37.5 cm thick, is
(a) Rs. 42600
(b) Rs. 43200
(c) Rs. 40750
(d) Rs. 41860
21. A river 2 m deep and 45 cm wide is running at the rate of 3 km/hr. The amount of water that runs into
the sea per minute, is:
(a) 4500 m3 (b) 27000 m3
(c) 3000 m3 (d) 2700 m3
22. In a shower, 5 cm of rain falls. The volume of water that falls on 2 hectares of ground, is:
(a) 100 m3 (b) 1000 m3 (c) 10 m3
(d) 10000 m3
23. Half cubic metre of gold sheet is exended by hammering so as to cover an area of a 1 hectare. The
thickness of the sheet is:
(a) 0.5 cm
(b) 0.05 cm
(c) 0.005 cm
(d) 0.0005 cm
24. If the volumes of two cubes are in the ratio 8 : 1, the ratio of their edges, is:
(a) 8 : 1 (b) 2 2 : 1 (c) 2 : 1 (d) none of these
25. Three metal cubes of sides 5 cm, 4 cm and 3 cm are melted and recast into a new cube. The length of
the edge of this cube is:
(a) 6 cm
(b) 8 cm
(c) 10 cm
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26. If each side of a cube is doubled, then its volume

(a) is doubled
(b) becomes 4 times

(c) becomes 6 times

(d) becomes 8 times

27. The difference in volumes of two cubes is 152 m3 and the difference in their one face areas is 20 m2. If
the sum of their edges is 10 m, the prouct of the edges is:
(a) 21 (b) 24 (c) 36 (d) 48
28. If each edge of a cube is increased by 50%, the percentage increase in surface area is:
(a) 50%(b) 75%(c) 100%
(d) 125%
29. Two cubes have volumes in the ratio 1 : 27. The ratio of their surface areas is:
(a) 1 : 3 (b) 1 : 8(c) 1 : 9 (d) 1 : 18
30. A tank 3 m long, 2 m wide and 1.5 m deep is dug in a field 22 m long and 14 m wide. If the earth dug
out is evenly spread out over the field, the rise in level of the field will be:
(a) 0.299 cm (b) 0.29 cm
(c) 2.98 cm
(d) 4.15 cm
31. The dimensions of an open box are 52 cms, 40 cms and 29 cms. Its thickness is 2 cms. If 1 cm3 of
metal used in the box weighs 0.5 gm, the weight of the box is:
(a) 8.56 kg
(b) 7.76 kg
(c) 7.576 kg
(d) 6.832 kg
32. The area of the card board needed to make a box of size 25 cm 15 cm 8 cm will be:
(a) 390 cm2
(b) 1000 cm2
(c) 1390 cm2 (d) 2780 cm2
33. The length of a cylinder is 80 cm and the diameter of its base is 7 cm. The whole surface of the
cylinder is:
(a) 1837 cm2 (b) 1760 cm2
(c) 3080 cm2 (d) 1942 cm2
34. The height of a cylinder is 14 cm and its curved surface area is 264 sq. cm. The volume of the cylinder
is:
(a) 308 cm3
(b) 396 cm3
3
(c) 1848 cm
(d) 1232 cm3
35. The radius of a wife is decreased to one-third. If volume remains the same, length will increase:
(a) 1 time
(b) 3 times
(c) 6 times
(d) 9 times
36. The length of the wire of 0.2 mm radius that can be drawn after melting a solid copper sphere of
diameter 18 cm, is:
(a) 24.3 m (b) 243 m (c) 2430 m (d) 24300 m
37. The number of solid spheres, each of diameter 6 cm., that could be moulded to form a solid metal
cylinder of height 45 cm and diameter 4 cm, is:
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6
38. A hollow garden roller 63 m wide with a girth of 440 cm is made of iron 4 cm thick. The volume of
iron used is:
(a) 56372 cuibic m
(b) 58752 cubic cm
(c) 54982 cubic cm
(d)
107712 cm3
39. If 1 cubic cm of cast iron weighs 21 gms,. Then the weight of a cast iron pipe of length 1 m with a
bore of 3 cm and in which the thickness of the metal is 1 cm, is:
(a) 21 kg
(b) 24.2 kg (c) 26.4 kg (d) 18.6 kg
40. The radius of a circular cylinder is the same as that of a sphere. Their volumes are equal. The height of
the cylinder is:

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(a) 4/3 times radius

(c) equal to radius

(b) 2/3 times radius

(d) equal to its diameter

41. A cylindrical vessel of radius 4 cm contains water. A solid sphere of radius 3 cm is lowered into the
water until it is completely immersed. The water level in the vessel will rise by:
(a) 4.5 cm (b) 2.25 cm (c) 4/9 cm (d) 2/9 cm
42. A right cylinder and a right circular cone have the same radius and the same volume. The ratio of the
height of the cylinder to that of the cone, is:
(a) 3 : 5 (b) 2 : 5(c) 3 : 1 (d) 1 : 3
43. A right cylinder vessel is full with water. How many right cones having the same diameter and height
as those of the right cylinder will be needed to store that water:
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5
44. The curved surface area of a sphere is 1386 sq. cm. Its volume is:
(a) 2772 cm3
(b) 4158 cm3
(c) 4851 cm3
(d) 5544 cm3
45. The volume of a sphere is 38808 cu cm. The curved surface area of the sphere is:
(a) 5544 sq. cm.
(b) 1386 sq. cm.
(c) 8316 sq. cm.
(d) 4158 sq. cm.
46. Volume of hemisphere is 19404 cubic cm. The total surface area is:
(a) 2772 sq. cm.
(b) 4158 sq. cm.
(c) 5544 sq. cm.

(d) 1386 sq. cm

47. The curved surface areas of two spheres are in the ratio of 1 : 4. The ratio of their volumes is:
(a) 1 : 4 (b) 1 : 2 2 (c) 1 : 8 (d) 1 : 64
48. The radii of two spheres are in the ratio 1 : 2. The ratio of their surface areas, is:
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 1 : 4(c) 1 : 2
(d) 3 : 8
49. Two circular cylinders of equal volume have their heights in the ratio 1 : 2. Ratio of their radii is:
(a) 1 : 2
(b) 2 : 1
(c) 1 : 2
(d) 1 : 4
50. A spherical lead ball of radius 10 cm is melted and small lead balls of radius 5 cm are made. The total
number of possible lead balls is:
(a) 800
(b) 125
(c) 400
(d) 8000
51. How many bullets can be made out of a cube of lead whose edge meaures 22 cm, each bullet being 2
cm in diameter?
(a) 5324
(b) 2662
(c) 1347
(d) 2541
52. A spherical ball of lead, 3 cm in diameter is melted and recast into three spherical balls. The diameter
of two of these are 1.5 cm and 2 cm respectively. The diameter of the third ball is:
(a) 2.66 cm (b) 2.5 cm (c) 3 cm
(d) 3.5 cm
53. If the volume and surface area of a sphere are numerically the same, then its radius is:
(a) 1 unit
(b) 2 units (c) 3 units
(d) 4 units
54. The ratio of total surface area to lateral surface area of a cylinder whose radius is 80 cm and height 20
cm, is:
(a) 2 : 1 (b) 3 : 1(c) 4 : 1 (d) 5 : 1
55. The radii of two cylinders are in the ratio of 2 : 3 and their heights are in the ratio 5 : 3. The rtio of
their volumes is:

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(a) 27 : 20 (b) 20 : 27 (c) 4 : 9

(d) 9 : 4

56. A cylindrical vessel 60 cm in diameter is partially filled with water. A sphere, 60 cm in diameter is
gently dropped into the vessel. To what further height will water in the cylinder:
(a) 15 cm
(b) 30 cm (c) 40 cm (d) 25 cm
(e) can not be determined, since the height of the cylinder has not been given
57. A cylindrical piece of metal of radius 2 cm and height 6 cm is shaped into cone of the same radius. The
height of the cone is:
(a) 18 cm
(b) 14 cm (c) 12 cm (d) 8 cm
58. The radius of the base of a right circular cone is 6 cm and its slant height is 28 cm. The curved area of
the cone is:
(a) 268 sq. cm. (b) 528 sq. cm
(c) 462 sq. cm (d) 658 sq. cm
59. If a right circular cone of vertical height 24 cm has a volume of 1232 cm3, then the area of its curved
surface is:
(a) 1254 cm2 (b) 704 cm2
(c) 550 cm2
(d) 154 cm2
60. If the volume of two cones are in the ratio 1 : 4 and their diameters are in the ratio 4 : 5. Then the ratio
of their height is:
(a) 1 : 5 (b) 5 : 4(c) 5 : 16
(d) 25 : 64
61. A solid consists of a circular cylinder with an exact fitting right circular cone placed on the top. The
height of the cone is h. If the total volume of the solid is three times the volume of cone, then the height of
the cylinder is:
(a) 2 h (b) 4 h (c) 2 h/3
(d) 3 h/2
62. The material of a cone is converted into the shape of a cylinder of equal raidus. If the height of the
cylinder is 5 cm, the height of the cone is:
(a) 10 cm
(b) 15 cm (c) 18 cm (d) 24 cm
63. A cone of height 7 cm and base radius 3 cm is carved from a rectangular block of wood 10 cm 15 cm
2 cm. The percentage of word wasted is:
(a) 34%(b) 46%(c) 54%(d) 66%
64. The area of the base of a right circular cone is 154 cm2 and its height is 14 cm. The curved surface of
the cone is:
(a) (154 5) cm2
(b) 11 cm2
(c) (154 7) cm2
(d) 5324 cm2
65. The length of canvas 1.2 m wide required to build a conical tent of height 14 m and floor area 346.5
m2, is:
(a) 665 m
(b) 770 m (c) 490 m (d) 860 m
66. The cost of painting the four walls of a room is Rs. 350. The cost of painting a room three times in
length, breadth and height will be:
(a) Rs. 1050
(b) Rs. 1400
(c) Rs. 3150
(d) Rs. 4200
67. The percentage increase in the surface area of a cube when each side is doubled, is:
(a) 25%(b) 50%(c) 150%
(d) 300%
68. If the height of a cone is doubled, then its volume is increased by:
(a) 100%
(b) 200% (c) 300% (d) 400%

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69. If the radius of a sphere is doubled, then its surface area is increased by:
(a) 100%
(b) 200% (c) 300% (d) 50%
70. If the radius of a sphere is doubled, hten its volume is increased by:
(a) 100%
(b) 200% (c) 700% (d) 800%
71. A cylinder and a cone have the same height and same radius of the base. The ratio between the volumes
of the cylinder and the cone is:
(a) 1 : 3 (b) 3 : 1(c) 1 : 2 (d) 2 : 1
72. The volume of a sphere is 88/21 (14)3 cm3. The curved surface of its sphere is:
(a) 2424 cm2 (b) 2446 cm2
(c) 2464 cm2 (d) 2484 cm2
ANSWERS
1. (c) 2. (c)
14.(c)
22. (b) 23. (c)
35.(d)
43. (b) 44. (c)
56. (c)
67. (d)

3. (b)
15. (b)
24. (c)
36. (d)
45. (a)
57. (a)
68. (a)

4. (c)
16. (c)
25. (a)
37. (c)
46. (b)
58. (b)
69. (a)

5. (d)
17. (b)
26. (d)
38. (d)
47. (c)
59. (c)
69. (c)

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6. (d)
18. (b)
27. (b)
39. (c)
48. (b)
60. (d)
70. (c)

7. (c)
19. (b)
28.(d)
40. (a)
49. (b)
61. (c)
71. (b)

8. (b)
20. (b)
29. (c)
41. (b)
50. (d)
62. (b)
72. (c)

9. (d)
21.(a)
30. (c)
42.(d)
51. (d)
63. (a)

10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (c)

31. (d) 32. (c) 33. (a) 34. (b)
52. (b) 53. (c) 54. (d) 55. (b)
64. (a) 65. (b) 66. (a) 66. (c)