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Chapter-8

SOLIDS
 Square pyramid

Lateral edge (e)

Slant height (l)
Height (h)

base edge (a)

h l = ℎ +

h= −
2
=√ −ℎ

l e e= +

= −
2
=√ −

 Base diagonal

d = a√2

a=
√

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Base Area (BA) =

Lateral Surface Area (L.S.A) = 2

Total surface Area (TSA) = +2

Volume = ℎ

Volume of square prism = a2h

All edges are equal

4e +4 a = 8 a

√
= a

√
h= a

CONE

l
h

= √ℎ +
r
ℎ=√ −

= √ −ℎ

SECTOR & CONE

x x
l
r
=

Sector
CONE

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=
360

= ×
360

= × 360

Base Area (BA) =

Curved Surface Area (CSA) =

Total Surface Area (TSA) = +

Volume = ℎ

Volume of Cylinder = ℎ

 SPHERE

Total Surface Area (TSA) = 4

r

r Volume =

 HEMISPHERE

Base Area (BA) =

Curved Surface Area = 2

Total Surface Area = 3

Volume = 2 3


Volume= V1+V2
V2
+ ℎ

V1

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T.S.A = C.S.A of Hemisphere + C.S.A of Cone

2 +


Area (A) =
∴ =

1. A square pyramid have base perimeter 144 cm and L.S.A 2160 cm2.
a) What is the base edge?
b) What is slant height?
c) What is the height?
d) What is the T.S.A?
e) What is the Volume?

2. A cone made by rolling up a sector of radius 15cm and central angle 2400.
a) Find the slant height of the cone? 240°
b) Find radis? 15
c) Find height?
d) Find C.S.A?
e) Find T.S.A?
f) Find Volume?

Sector

3. T.S.A of a sphere is 576 . What is the Volume?

4. A metal sphere of a radius is 12cm is melted and recast into cone of radius 6cm and height 8cm.?
How many such cones are got?

5. From the Figure.

a) Find height of cone?
b) Find slant height of cone? 36 cm 42 cm
c) Find Volume of solid?
d) Find T.S.A of solid?

6. A sphere is carved out from cone the base diameter of cone is 24cm and slant height of the cone is 15cm.
a) What is the height of cone?
b) Find the radius of Sphere?

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7. The Volume of 2 spheres are in the ratio 27:64.

a) What is the ratio of their radii?
b) What is the ratio of their Surface Area?

8. All edges of a square pyramid are equal. ℎ = 5√2

a) What is the length of base edge?
b) Find Slant height?
c) Find T.S.A?
d) Find Volume?

9. Find Volume of largest hemisphere that can be carved out from a cone of Base diameter 30cm and
height 20cm.

10. What is the Volume of a square pyramid with slant height 17cm and T.S.A 800cm2?

More questions
2 2
1. Find Volume of a Sphere pyramid with Base Area 100cm and L.S.A 260cm .
2. A solid metal hemisphere of diameter 30cm and melted and recast into cone. What is the height of cone?

3. From the figure

How many litre of petrol can it hold?

6 cm

2 cm

4. From the Figure,

a) What is the length of a base edge?
b) What is slant height?
c) What is height?
d) What is lateral edge?
e) What is the length of base diagonal?
f) What is the length of square sheet paper?
g) What is Base Area? 10 cm
h) What is L.S.A?
13 cm
i) What is T.S.A?
j) What is Volume?

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5. Cone of maximum is carved out from a sphere, radius of the cone is 9cm and height 25cm.
Find Volume of sphere?
6. Find ratio of Base edge, slant height and height of a square pyramid with all its edges equal.
7. A cone can be carved out from a sphere of radius 13cm with height of cone 18cm.
a) What is the radius of Cone?
b) Find Volume of cone?
2
8. The T.S.A of a hemisphere is 432 . What is the volume of hemisphere?
9. Is it possible to construct a square pyramid of base edge 24 cm and lateral edge 13 cm? Justify
10. Lateral surface of a square pyramid is shown in the figure. All angles are equal. Find the total length of
all edges of the square pyramid. Find the slant height. What is the ratio between height and slant height

11. Devika made a square pyramid having base edge 40cm and height 15cm. Unfortunately, one lateral face
got separated from the pyramid. Check which figure given below shows the isosceles triangle mat got
separated.
12. A tent constructed in the form of a square pyramid of base perimeter 80 metres and lateral edge 26
metres.
a. Calculate the slant height of the tent
b. Calculate the area of tarpaulin sheet required to cover the lateral faces of the tent.
13. The triangle given in the figure is one lateral face of a square pyramid.

a. Calculate the slant height

b. Find the lateral surface area of the pyramid
14. A square pyramid is made from a solid cube having edge 30cm. Calculate the surface area of the
pyramid.
15. The lateral faces of a square pyramid are equilateral triangels. Lateral edge = 20 cm
a. Calculate the slantheight
b. Find its surface area
c. Find its volume
16. Prove that the ratio between the base edge ,slant height and height of a square pyramid having equal
edges is 2: √3 : √2

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17. The ratio between the base edges of two square pyramids is 1:2. The heights are also in the same ratio. If
the volume of the first pyramid is 10 cubic centimeters, calculate the volume of the second one.
18. Meera constructed a square pyramid of base edge 10cm and height 6cm. Manu made a square pyramid
having base edge 5cm and height 24cm. Find the volume of the pyramids and compare the
measurements.
19. The central angle of a sector is 288°. If this sector is rolled up to make a cone, find the ratio between the
radius and slant height of the cone.
20. The ratio between the radius and slant height of a cone is 2 : 3. Find the central angle of the sector to
make the cone.
21. The central angle of a circle is divided in the ratio 2: 3 to form two sectors. Two cones are made by
rolling up the two sectors.
a. Find out the ratio between the base perimeters of the cones.
b. What is the ratio between the curved surface areas
22. Find the ratio between the radius and slant height of a cone by rolling up a sector with central angle
120°. If the curved surface area is 108 π , find the radius and slant height of the cone.
23. A wooden cone is has radius 30cm and height 40cm. Find its slant height. Calculate the cost to paint the
face of 10 such cones at the rate of Rs.50/- per square meter.
24. Two cones are made using two sectors of central angles 60° and 120° of a circle. If the radius of the
smaller cone is 5cm
a. Calculate the radius and base area of the smaller cone.
b. Find the surface area of the bigger cone.
25. A sector of central angle 216° and radius 25cm has been rolled up to make a cone. Find the radius,
height and volume of the cone.
26. The radius and height of a wax made cylinder are 6cm and 12cm respectively. A cone of same base
radius and height has been made from this cylinder by cutting out.
a. Find the volume of cone
b. How many candles with 1cm radius and 12cm height can be made using the remaining wax
27. A sector with central angle 288° has been cut off from tin sheet having radius 15 cm. Using the tin sheet
a largest conical vessel is made.
a. Find the radius of the vessel.
b. In this vessel large enough to buy 1 - litres of coconut oil?
28. Calculate the radius of a sphere having surface area 144πsquare centimetres. Find the surface area of the
sphere having half the radius of the first sphere.
29. The edge of a cube is 12cm. Find the volume ofthe largest sphere that can be carved out from it?
30. Ratio ofthe diameters of two hemispheres is 2 : 5
a. Find the ratio of their radii
b. If the surface area ofthe second hemisphere is 50 square centimetres calculate the surface area
ofthe first hemisphere
31. By melting and recasting a metal cone, a hemisphere of same diameter is made.
a. What is the ratio ofthe height and base diameter of the cone.
b. Which solid is has larger surface area?
32. Three solids a square pyramid, a cone and a sphere have been carved out from three solid cubes of the
same size. Find the volume of each solid.

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33. A metal sphere is melted and recasted into a cone. Both have same radii
a. Find the relationship between the height of the cone and the radius of the sphere.
b. Which solid has greater surface area? Justify
34. A hemisphere and a cone with same radii are attached to get a solid as given in the figure. Radius of the
hemisphere is 9 cm. The height of the two solids together is 21 cm.

a. Find the height of the cone

b. Find the volume of the cone
c. Find the volume of the solids
35. Ahemisphere and a cone both have same diameter. These two metal solids are joinedby putting their
bases together. The height of the cone is equal to the diameter of the sphere. This solid is melted and
recasted into a sphere of diameter equal to one third of the diameter of the hemisphere.
a. If radius ofthe hemisphere is 'r', find the volume ofthe combined solid.
b. Find the number of spheres.
36. All edges of a square pyramid are equal. Total length of all edges is 96 cm. Find the volume of the
square pyramid.
37. Is it possible to make a square pyramid of slant height 12cm, base perimeter 40cm and lateral surface
area250 square centimetre. Why?
38. The lateral faces of a square pyramid are all equilateral triangles. Find the ratio between its height and
slant height.
39. A conical vessel of base radius 12cm and height 36cm contains water upto 9cm high. After closing the
lid, the vessel is turned upside down as shown. Find the height of the vacant part of the vessel from the
water level.

40. A sector is rolled up to make a cone. If the slant height of the cone is two times the radius. what is the
central angle of the sector?

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41. The base radius of a cone is two times the height. It is melted and recasted into cones of same height and
radius half the height. How many cones can be made?
42. A circle is cut into 12 sectors. From these one sector is taken and rolled up to form a cone. What is the
ratio of the base radius and slant height of the cone?
43. Angle between the base radius and slant height of a cone is 60°. If its base radius is 8cm, what is its
volume?
44. A semicircle is rolled up to make a cone of radius 12cm. Through the apex, and perpendicular to the
base it is cut into two pieces. Show that the new faces so obtained were equilateral triangles.
45. A wooden cone has its slant height two times the radius. If the radius is 6cm, find the volume of the
largest sphere that can be carved out of this.
46. Two hemispheres are attached together to get a sphere. Surface area of each hemisphere is 60 sq. cm.
Find the surface area of the sphere

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