Mensuration: Surface Areas and Volumes
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Compute surface areas of combinations of cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones, spheres, and hemispheres
SubtopicCompute surface areas of combinations of cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones, spheres, and hemispheres under Mensuration: Surface Areas and Volumes for Grade 10 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
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Find the area of a circle with radius cm.
A.B.C.D. - 2.
The ratio of the volumes of two spheres is . What is the ratio of their surface areas?
A.B.C.D. - 3.
Find the total surface area of a hemisphere of radius cm. (Use )
A.B.C.D. - 4.
The surface area of a solid hemisphere is . Find its radius.
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
- 5.
A solid toy is in the form of a cylinder with hemispherical ends. The total height of the toy is and the diameter of the cylinder is . Find the total surface area of the toy. (Use )
A.B.C.D. - 6.
A solid iron pole consists of a cylinder of height cm and base diameter cm, which is surmounted by another cylinder of height cm and radius cm. Find the mass of the pole, given that of iron has approximately g mass. (Use )
A.kg
B.kg
C.kg
D.kg
- 7.
A container shaped like a right circular cylinder having diameter cm and height cm is full of ice cream. The ice cream is to be filled into cones of height cm and diameter cm, having a hemispherical shape on the top. Find the number of such cones which can be filled.
A.B.C.D. - 8.
A hemispherical bowl of internal radius 9 cm is full of liquid. This liquid is to be filled into cylindrical shaped small bottles each of diameter 3 cm and height 4 cm. How many bottles are necessary to empty the bowl?
A.48
B.54
C.60
D.72
- 9.
A cone of height 24 cm and radius of base 6 cm is made up of modeling clay. A child reshapes it in the form of a sphere. Find the surface area of the sphere formed.
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
- 10.
A solid is in the form of a cylinder with hemispherical ends. The total height of the solid is 20 cm and the diameter of the cylinder is 7 cm. Find the total surface area of the solid. (Use )
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
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Compute volumes of composite solids formed from two standard three-dimensional shapes
SubtopicCompute volumes of composite solids formed from two standard three-dimensional shapes under Mensuration: Surface Areas and Volumes for Grade 10 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
- 1.
Two cubes each of volume cm are joined end to end. Find the volume of the resulting cuboid.
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
- 2.
A cylindrical tank of radius m and height m has a hemispherical lid. Find the volume of the tank.
A.m
B.m
C.m
D.m
- 3.
A solid is in the shape of a cone standing on a hemisphere with both their radii being equal to cm and the height of the cone is equal to its radius. Find the volume of the solid in terms of .
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
- 4.
Find the volume of a solid which is a combination of a cylinder of height cm and radius cm with two cones at the ends each of height cm.
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
- 5.
An engineering student was asked to make a model shaped like a cylinder with two cones attached at its two ends by using a thin aluminum sheet. The diameter of the model is cm and its length is cm. If each cone has a height of cm, find the volume of air contained in the model.
A.B.C.D. - 6.
A solid consists of a right circular cone of height cm and radius cm standing on a hemisphere of radius cm. It is placed upright in a right circular cylinder full of water such that it touches the bottom. If the cylinder's radius is cm and height is cm, find the volume of water left in the cylinder.
A.B.C.D. - 7.
A medicine capsule is in the shape of a cylinder with two hemispheres stuck to each of its ends. The length of the entire capsule is mm and the diameter of the capsule is mm. Find its volume.
A.B.C.D. - 8.
A solid toy is in the form of a hemisphere surmounted by a right circular cone of the same radius. The height of the cone is cm and the radius of its base is cm. If a cube of side cm is carved out from the bottom of the hemispherical part, find the volume of the remaining toy. (Take )
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
- 9.
An industrial storage tank is composed of a cylinder of height m and radius m, with two identical cones attached to each of its circular ends. If the total volume of the tank is m, find the vertical height of each cone.
A.m
B.m
C.m
D.m
- 10.
A decorative pillar is designed by mounting a hemisphere on top of a cylinder. The radius of both the hemisphere and the cylinder is cm, and the total height of the pillar is cm. A cylindrical hole of radius cm is drilled through the center of the entire pillar along its vertical axis of symmetry to accommodate a light fixture. Calculate the volume of the material used in the pillar. (Use )
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
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Visualise and solve conversion problems between one solid shape and another
SubtopicVisualise and solve conversion problems between one solid shape and another under Mensuration: Surface Areas and Volumes for Grade 10 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
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A solid metallic sphere of radius cm is melted and recast into a solid right circular cone of radius cm. Find the height of the cone so formed.
A.cm
B.cm
C.cm
D.cm
- 2.
A metallic cylinder of radius 4 cm and height 10 cm is melted and cast into a sphere. What is the radius of the sphere?
A.B.C.D. - 3.
If a solid sphere of radius 10 cm is molded into 8 identical small solid spheres, what is the radius of each small sphere?
A.B.C.D. - 4.
A cone of height 20 cm and radius of base 5 cm is melted and recast into a sphere. What is the diameter of the sphere?
A.B.C.D. - 5.
Find the number of metallic circular discs with 1.5 cm base radius and height 0.2 cm to be melted to form a right circular cylinder of height 10 cm and diameter 4.5 cm.
A.B.C.D. - 6.
How many spherical lead shots each 4.2 cm in diameter can be obtained from a rectangular solid of lead with dimensions ?
A.B.C.D. - 7.
A hemispherical tank full of water is emptied by a pipe at the rate of litres per second. How much time will it take to empty half the tank, if it is 3 m in diameter?
A.B.C.D. - 8.
Water is flowing at the rate of 15 km/h through a pipe of diameter 14 cm into a rectangular tank which is 50 m long and 44 m wide. Determine the time (in hours) in which the level of water in the tank will rise by 21 cm.
A.hour
B.hours
C.hours
D.hours
- 9.
A solid metallic sphere of radius 10.5 cm is melted and recast into a number of smaller solid cones, each of radius 3.5 cm and height 3 cm. Find the number of cones formed and the total surface area of all these cones combined (Take ).
A.cones and
B.cones and
C.cones and
D.cones and
- 10.
Selvi's house has an overhead tank in the shape of a cylinder. This is filled by pumping water from a sump (an underground tank) which is in the shape of a cuboid. The sump has dimensions . The overhead tank has its radius and height . Find the height of the water left in the sump after the overhead tank has been completely filled with water from the sump which had been full. (Use )
A.B.C.D.
Download the worksheet for Mensuration: Surface Areas and Volumes - Visualise and solve conversion problems between one solid shape and another to practice offline. It includes additional chapter-level practice questions.