Surface, Area & Volume
1. How much ice-cream can be put into a cone with base radius 3.5 cm and height
12 cm
2. If a wooden box of dimensions 8 m x 7 m x 6 m is to carry boxes of dimensions
8 cm x 7 cm x 6 cm, then find the maximum number of boxes that can be
carried in the wooden box.
3. Two cubes of edge 6 cm are joined to form a cuboid. Find the total surface area
of the cuboid.
4. If in a cylinder, radius is doubled and height is halved, then find its curved
surface area.
5. The radii of two cylinders of the same height are in the ratio 4 :5, then find the
ratio of their volumes.
6. Find the area of the sheet required to make closed cylindrical vessel of height
1 m and diameter 140 cm.
7. Find the volume of cone of radius r/2 and height ‘2h’.
8. 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.
9. If the volume of a sphere is numerically equal to its surface area, then find the
diameter of the sphere.
10. The radius of a spherical balloon increases from 6 cm to 12 cm as air is being
pumped into it. Then what will be the ratio of surface areas of the original
balloon to the resulting new balloon ?
11. The outer and the inner radii of a hollow sphere are 12 cm and 10 cm. Find its
volume.
12. In a cylinder, if radius is halved and height is doubled, then find the volume
with respect to original volume.
13. A spherical ball is divided into two equal halves. If the curved surface area of
each half is 56.57 cm?, find the volume of the spherical ball. [use π = 3.14]
14. Find the length of the longest pole that can be put in a room of dimensions 10
m x 10 m x 5 m.
15. Find the capacity in litres of a conical vessel having height 8 cm and slant
height 10 cm.
16. Calculate the surface area of a hemispherical dome of a temple with radius 14
m to be whitewashed from outside.
17. A school provides milk to the students daily in cylindrical glasses of diameter
7 cm. If the glass is filled with milk up to a height of 12 cm, find how many litres
of milk is needed to serve 1600 students.
18. A dome of a building is in the form of a hemisphere. From inside, it was
whitewashed at the cost of Rs 498.96. If the rate of whitewashing is Rs 4 per
square metre, find the :(i) Inside surface area of the dome (ii) Volume of the air
inside the dome
19. A shopkeeper has one spherical laddoo of radius 5 cm. With the same amount
of material, how many laddoos of radius 2.5 cm can be made ?
20. A right angled A ABC with sides 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm is revolved about the
fixed side of 4 cm. Find the volume of the solid generated. Also, find the total
surface area of the solid.