MENSURATION PRACTICE SHEET
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1)  The volume of a cuboid is 608 cm
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2)  What is the area of a rectangular cardboard, required to make a box of length 16 cm, breadth 
14 cm and height 9 cm?  (988 cm
. The area of its base is 76 sq.cm. Find its height. 
  (8 cm) 
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3)  Find the volume, the lateral surface area and the total surface area of a cube each of whose 
sides measures 4.75 cm.  (135.375 cm
) 
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4)  The length of the longest rod which can be kept inside a rectangular box is 27 cm. If the length 
and breadth of the box are 23 cm and 10 cm respectively, find its height. [Hint: Length of the 
longest rod = length of the diagonal = l
2
 +b
2
 + h
2
].  (8 cm) 
) 
5)  The three sides of a cuboid are 48 cm, 37.5 cm and 15 cm. Find the side of the cube, whose 
volume is equal to the volume of the cuboid.  (30 cm) 
6)  A wall 15 m long, 30 cm wide and 4 m high is made of bricks each measuring 22 cm  12.5 cm  
7.5 cm. If 
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12
 of the total volume of the wall consists of mortar, how many bricks are there in the 
wall?  (8000) 
7)  The volume of a cube is numerically equal to its surface area. Find the length of its side. 
  (6 units) 
8)  The ratio of length, breadth and height of a cuboid is 3:2:1. If the length is increased by 200%, 
breadth 200%, height by 100%, then find the change in its volume.      (18 
times) 
9)  If V denotes the volume of a cube and T its surface area, show that V=
36
6. 
10) If the length of each side of a cube is doubled, how many times will the cube increase (i) in 
volume () in surface area?  (8 times, 24 times) 
11) A cube is cut into two cuboids of equal volume. Find the ratio between the total surface area of 
the given cube and that of one of the cuboids.  (3:2) 
12) 500 men can dip in a tank which is 80 m long and 50 m broad. What is the rise in the water 
level, if the average displacement of water by a man is 4 m
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13) Each side of a cube is increased by 60%. Find the percentage of increase in the surface area of 
the cube.  (156%) 
?  (50 cm) 
14) The volume of a cube is numerically equal to the sum of its edges. What is its total surface area 
in square units.  (72 units) 
15) The circumference of the base of a cylinder is 35.2 cm and its height is 15 cm. Find the volume 
and the curved surface area of a cylinder.  (704 cm
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16) Two cylindrical cans have bases of the same size. The diameter of each is 7 cm. One of the cans 
is 15 cm high and the other is 20 cm high. Find the ratio of their volumes.   
  (3:16) 
) 
17) A rectangular piece of paper 22 cm long and 12 cm broad is rolled along its length to form a 
cylinder. Find the volume of the cylinder so formed.  (462 cm
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18) A powder is available in two packs, a tin can with a square base of each side 5 cm and having 
height 14 cm and the other with a circular base of radius 3.5 cm and having height 12 cm. Which 
of them has greater capacity and by how much?  (112 cm
) 
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19) The height of a right cylinder is 6 m. Three times the sum of the areas of its two circular faces is 
twice the area of its curved surface. Find the radius of its base.  (4 m) 
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