THE KALYANI SCHOOL

QUESTION BANK
SURFACE AREA & VOLUME
KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER

1. If , b and h denote respectively the length, breadth and height of a cuboid, then -

(i) total surface area of the cuboid = 2 (b + bh + h) square units.
(ii) Volume of the cuboid
= Area of the base × height = bh cubic units.
(iii) Diagonal of the cuboid or longest rod

=  2  b 2  h 2 units.
(iv) Area of four walls of a room
= 2 ( + b) h sq. units.
2. If the length of each edge of a cube is ‘a’ units, then-
(i) Total surface area of the cube = 6a2 sq. units.
(ii) Volume of the cube = a3 cubic units
(iii) Diagonal of the cube = 3 a units.
3. If r and h denote respectively the radius of the base and height of a right circular cylinder, then -
(i) Area of each end = r2
(ii) Curved surface area = 2rh
= (circumference) height
(iii) Total surface area = 2r (h + r) sq. units.
(iv) Volume = r2h = Area of the base × height
4. If R and r (R > r) denote respectively the external and internal radii of a hollow right circular cylinder,
then -
(i) Area of each end = (R2 – r2)
(ii) Curved surface area of hollow cylinder = 2 (R + r) h
(iii) Total surface area = 2 (R + r) (R – r+h)
(iv) Volume of material = h (R2 – r2)
5. If r, h and  denote respectively the radius of base, height and slant height of a right circular cone, then-

(i) 2 = r 2 + h 2

(ii) Curved surface area = r

(iii) Total surface area = r2 + r

1 2
(iv) Volume = r h
3
6. For a sphere of radius r, we have
(i) Surface area = 4r2
4 3
(ii) Volume = r
3
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7. If h is the height, the slant height and r1 and r2 the radii of the circular bases of a frustum of a cone
then -

(i) Volume of the frustum = (r12 + r1r2 + r22) h
3

(ii) Lateral surface area = (r1 + r2) 

(iii) Total surface area = {(r1 + r2) + r12 + r22}

(iv) Slant height of the frustum = h 2  (r1  r2 ) 2

hr1
(v) Height of the cone of which the frustum is a part =
r1  r2

r1
(vi) Slant height of the cone of which the frustum is a part =
r1  r2
(vii) Volume of the frustum

=
h
3
 
A1  A 2  A1A 2 , where A1 and A2 denote the areas of circular bases of the frustum.
 Surface Area and Volume

WORKSHEET-13.1
1. A circus tent is in the shape of a cylinder, upto a height of 8 m, surmounted by a
cone of the same radius 28 m. If the total height of the tent is 13 m, find:
13m
(i) total inner curved surface area of the tent.
8m
(ii) cost of painting its inner surface at the rate of ` 3.50 per m2.

28m

2. A cylinder and a cone have same base area. But the volume of cylinder is twice the volume of cone.
Find the ratio between their heights.
3. Find the formula for the total surface area of each figure given bellow :


(i) r (ii)
h



(iii) (iv) r
r h

4. The radius of a sphere increases by 25%. Find the percentage increase in its surface area.
5. Three solid spheres of radii 1 cm, 6 cm and 8 cm are melted and recasted into a single sphere. Find the
radius of the sphere obtained.

3.5 cm

5 cm

6. In given figure the top is shaped like a cone surmounted by a hemisphere. The entire top is 5 cm in
22
height and the diameter of the top is 3.5 cm. Find the area it has to colour. (Take  = )
7
7. The decorative block shown in figure is made of two solids a cube and a hemisphere. The base of the
block is a cube with edge 5 cm, and the hemisphere fixed on the top has a diameter of 4.2 cm. Find the
22
total surface area of the block. (Take  = )
7
4.2cm

5 cm

5 cm

5 cm
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8. A wooden toy rocket is in the shape of a cone mounted on a cylinder, as shown in figure. The height of
the entire rocket is 26 cm, while the height of the conical part is 6 cm. The base of the conical portion
has a diameter of 5 cm, while the best diameter of the cylindrical portion is 3 cm. If the conical portion
is to be painted orange and the cylindrical portion yellow, find the area of the rocket painted with each
of these colours. (Take  = 3.14)

6 cm

26 cm

3 cm 5 cm

base of cylinder
base of cone
9, A bird bath for garden in the shape of a cylinder with a hemispherical depression at one end (see
figure). The height of the cylinder is 1.45 m and its radius is 30 cm. Find the total surface area of the
22
bird-bath. (Take  = )
7
30 cm

1.45 m

10. A juice seller was serving his customers using glasses as shown in figure. The inner diameter of the
cylindrical glass was 5 cm, but the bottom of the glass had a hemispherical raised portion which
reduced the capacity of the glass. If the height of a glass was 10 cm. Find the apparent capacity of the
glass and its actual capacity. (Use = 3.14)

11. A solid toy is in the form of a hemisphere surmounted by a right circular cone. The height of the cone is
2 cm and the diameter of the base is 4 cm. Determine the volume of the toy. If a right circular cylinder
circumscribes the toy, find the difference of the volume of the cylinder and the toy. (Take  = 3.14)

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12. 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 radius of the sphere.
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13. 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 1.57 m ×
1.44 m × 95 cm. The overhead tank has its radius 60 cm and height 95 cm. 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. Compare the capacity of the tank with that of the sump. (Use  = 3.14)
14 A copper rod of diameter 1 cm and length 8 cm is drawn into a wire of length 18 m of uniform
thickness. Find the thickness of the wire.
15. What is the total surface area of a solid hemisphere of radius 7 cm?
16. Find the curved surface area of a right circular cone of height 15 cm and base diameter 16 cm.
17. If two cubes of edge 5 cm, each are joined end-to-end, then find the surface area of the resulting
cuboid.
18. A cube of side 6 cm is cut into cubes of 1 cm side, then find the total surface area of all the small
cubes.
19. A spherical ball of diameter 21 cm is melted and recast into cubes, each of sides 1 cm. Find number of
cubes so formed.
20. How many spherical balls each of radius 1 cm. made from a solid sphere of lead of radius 4 cm?
21. A metallic cube of edge 1 cm fs melted into a wire of diameter 4 mm, then find the length of the wire.
22. Find the ratio of the volumes of a cube to that of a sphere, which will exactly fit inside the cube.
23. The largest sphere is cut out from a cube of side 7 cm. Find the volume of the sphere.
24. The base radii of two right circular cones of the same height are in the ratio 3 : 5. What is the ratio of
their volumes?
25. If the radius of the base of a right circular cylinder is halved, keeping the height same, then find the
ratio of the volume of the cylinder thus obtained to the volume of original cylinder.
26. What is the ratio of volume of a cone and a cylinder of equal diameter and equal height?
27. The radii of two cylinders are in the ratio of 2 : 3 and their heights are in the ratio of 5 : 3. Then, find
the ratio of their volumes.
28. The radius of a sphere is 3 cm. It is melted and drawn into a wire of radius 2 mm. Find the length of
the wire.
29. A solid sphere of radius x is melted and cast into the shape of a solid cone of height x. Find the radius
of the base of cone.
30. If the radii of circular ends of frustum of a cone are 20 cm and 12 ern and its height is 6 cm, then find
the slant height of frustum (in cm).
31. Volumes of two spheres are in the' ratio 64 :27. What will be the ratio of their surface areas?
32. Find the volume of a largest sphere that can be cut from cylindrical log of wood of base radius 1 m and
height 4 m.
33. A cone is divided into two equal parts by drawing a plane through the mid-point of its axis, parallel to
its base. Find the ratio of volumes of two parts.
34. A solid of iron in the form of a cuboid of dimension 49 ern x 33 cm x 24 cm is moulded to form a solid
sphere. Find the radius of sphere.
35. Find the volume of the largest right circular cone that can be cut out from a cube of edge 4.2 cm.
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ANSWER
1 (i) 3907.2 m2
(ii) `13675.20
2 h1 : h2 = 2 : 3

3 (i) 2r2 + r= r (2r + )

(ii) 2 × 2r2 + 2rh = 2r (2r + h)

(iii) r (2r + 2h + )

r  2 
 2r  h  r 
2
(iv)
 
4 56.25% 5. 9 cm
6 39.6 cm2 (approx) 7 163.86 cm2
8 195.465 cm2 9 3.3 m2
10 163.54 cm2 11 25.12 cm3.
1
12 6 cm. 13
2
14 0.67 mm (approx.) 15. 147  cm2
16. 136  cm2 17. 250 cm2.
18. 129 cm2 19. 4851
25
20. 64 21. cm

539 3
22. 6:  23. cm
3
24. 9 : 25 25. 1:4
26. 1:3 27. 20 : 27
28. 900 cm 29. r  2x
30. 10 cm 31. 16 : 9
4
32.  m3 33. 1:7
3
34. r = 21 cm 35. 19.404cm3
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WORKSHEET-13.2
1. Three cubes of volume 27 ern- each are joined end-to-end to form a solid. Find the surface area of the
cuboid so formed.
2. Three metallic solid cubes whose edges are 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 ern are melted and formed into a single
cube. Find the edge of the single cube so formed.
3. A cubical solid block of metal 49 cm × 44 cm × 18 cm is melted and formed into a solid sphere.
Calculate the radius of the sphere.
4. A circus tent is cylindrical up to a height of 3 m and conical above it. If the diameter of the base is 105
m and the slant height of the conical part is 53 m, then find the total canvas used in making the tent.
5. An ice-cream cone consisting of cone surmounted by a -hemisphere. The radius of the hemisphere is
3.5 cm and height of the ice-cream cone is 12.5 cm. Calculate the volume of the ice-cream in the cone.
6. A solid is in the shape of a cone standing on a hemisphere with both their radii being equal to 7 cm
 22 
and height of the cone is equal of its diameter. Find the volume of the solid. take,   
 7

7. A solid is in the shape of a cone surmounted on a hemisphere, the radius of each of them being 3.5 cm
 22 
and total height of solid is 9.5 cm. Find the volume of the solid. take,   
 7

8. From a circular cylinder of diameter 10 cm and height 12 cm, a conical cavity of the same base radius
and of the same height is hollowed out. Find the volume of the remaining solid. [take,  = 3.14] .
9. 50 circular plates, each of radius 7 cm and thickness 0.5 cm, are placed one above . another to form a
solid right circular cylinder. Find the total surface area and the volume of the cylinder so formed.
10. A solid cuboidal slab of iron of dimensions 66 cm × 20 cm × 27 cm is used to cast an iron pipe. If the
outer diameter of the pipe is 10 cm and thickness is 1cm.· Then, calculate the length of the pipe.
11. How many shots each having diameter 3 cm can be made from a cuboidal lead solid of dimensions 9
cm × 11 cm × 12 cm?
12. The radius of a metallic solid sphere is 9 cm. It is melted and drawn into a wire having diameter of
cross-section as 0.2 cm. Find the length of the wire.
13. The rain water from a roof 22 m × 20 m drain into a conical vessel having diameter of base as 2 m and
height 3.5 m. If the vessel is just full, then find the rainfall.
14. A solid of iron in the form of a cuboid of dimensions 49 cm × 33 cm × 24 cm is moulded to form a
solid sphere. Find the radius of the sphere.
15. From a solid cube of side 7 cm, a conical cavity of height 7 cm and radius 3 cm is hollowed out. Find
the volume of the remaining solid.
16. Water flows through a cylindrical pipe, whose inner radius is 1 cm, at the rate of 80 cm/s in an empty
cylindrical tank, the radius of whose base is 40 cm. What is the rise of water level in tank in half an
hour?
17. A metallic spherical shell of internal and external diameters 4 cm and 8 cm, respectively is melted and
recast into the form a cone of base diameter 8 cm. Find the height of the cone.
18. Three cubes of a metal whose edges are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 are melted and converted into a single
cube whose diagonal is 12 3 cm. Find the edges of the three cubes.
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19. An hour glass is made using identical double glass cones of diameter 10 cm each. If total height is 24
cm, then find the surface area of the glass used in making it.

20. A warehouse is used as a grannary. It is in the shape of a cuboid surmounted by a half cylinder . The
base of the warehouse is 6 m × 14 m and its height is 8 m. Find the surface area of the non-cuboidal
part of the warehouse.

21. A solid metallic cylinder of radius 3.5 cm and height 14 cm is melted and recast into a number of
7
small solid metallic balls, each of radius cm. Find the number of balls so formed.
2
22. The cost of painting of the total outside surface of a closed cylindrical oil tank at 60 paise per sq. m is
` 237.60 and the height of the tank is 6 times the radius of the base of the tank. Find the radius and
height of the tank. [take,  = 22 /7)
23. From a solid cylinder of height 7 cm and base diameter 12 ern, a conical cavity of same height and
same base diameter is hollowed out. Find the total surface area of the remaining solid. [take,  = 22/7]
24. A rocket is in the form of a right circular cylinder closed at the lower end and surmounted by a cone
with the same radius as that of-the cylinder. The diameter and height of the cylinder are 6 cm and 12
cm, respectively. If the slant height of the conical portion is 5 cm, find the total surface area and volume
of the rocket. [take,  = 3.14).
25. A circus tent is made up using two different coloured cloth material. Red coloured material is used to
make cylindrical part up to a height of 3 m and green coloured material to make conical part above it.
If the diameter of the base is 105 m and slant height of the conical part is 53 m, find the red coloured
material and green coloured material required. [Assuming no stitching margins.]
26. A conical hole is drilled in a circular cylinder of height 15 ern and radius 8 cm, which has same height
and same base radius. Find the total surface area after drilling of cone. [take, 1t = 3.14]
27. A well of diameter 2 m is dug 14 m deep. The soil taken out of it, is spread evenly all around it to a
width of 5 m to form an embankment. Find the height of the embankment.
28. A hollow cube of internal edge 22 cm is filled with spherical marbles of diameter 0.5 cm and it is
1
assumed that space of the cube remains unfilled. Then, find the number of marbles that the cube
8
can accommodate.
29. A bucket made up of a metal sheet is in the form of a frustum of a cone of height 16 cm with radii of
its lower and upper ends as 8 cm and 20 cm, respectively. Find the cost of the bucket, if the cost of
metal sheet used is `15 per 100 cm". [take,  = 3.14]
30. Marbles of 'diameter 1.4 cm are dropped into a cylindrical beaker of diameter 7 cm containing some
water. Find the number of marbles that should be dropped into the beaker, so that the water level rises
by 5.6 cm.
31. A container is in the form of the frustum of a cone. If its height is 16 cm and the radii of its lower and
upper ends are 8 ern and 20 cm respectively, then find the slant height of the container and also the
cost of milk that the container can hold, if the cost of milk is `30 per L. [take,  = 3.14]
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32. The radius of the base and the height of a right circular cylinder are in the ratio of 2 : 3 and its volume
is 1617cm3. Find the curved surface area of the cylinder. [take,  = 272]
33. Two solid right circular cones have the same height. The radii of their bases are r1 and r2' They are
melted and recast into a cylinder of same height. Show that the radius ,Of the base of the 'cylinder is
r12  r22
.
3
34. A conical vessel with base radius 5 cm and height 24 cm, is full of water. This water is emptied into a
cylindrical vessel of base radius 10 cm. Find the height to which the water will rise in the cylindrical
 22 
vessel. take,   
 7
35. The barrel of a fountain pen, cylindrical in shape, is 7 cm long and 0.5 cm in diameter. A full barrel of
ink in the pen can be used for writing 275 words on an average. How many words would be written
using a bottle of ink containing one-fourth of a litre?
36. A trophy awarded to the best student in the class is in the form of a solid cylinder mounted on a solid
hemisphere with the same radius and is made from some metal. This trophy is mounted on a wooden
cuboid as shown in the figure.

The diameter of the hemisphere is 21 cm and the total height of the trophy is 24.5 cm. Find the weight
 22 
of the metal used in making the trophy if the weight of 1 cm3 of the metal is 1.2 g. take  
 7
37. How many cubic centimetres of iron . required to construct an open box who external dimensions are
36 ern, 25 cm an 16.5 cm provided the thickness of the iron is 1.5 cm. If one cubic centimetre of iron
weigh 7.5 g, then find the weight of the box.
38. The inner diameter of a cylindrical container is 7 cm and its top is of the shape of a hemisphere. If the
 22 
height of the container is 16 ern, then find the actual capacity of the container take   .
 7
39. A solid toy is in the form of a hemisphere surmounted by a right circular cone. The height of the cone
is 4 cm and the diameter the base is 8 cm. Determine the volume of toy. If a cube circumscribes the
toy, then find the difference of the volumes of cube and toy. Also, find the total surface area of the toy
40. A right angle triangle, whose sides are 15 ern and 20 cm other than hypotenuse is made to revolve
about its hypotenuse. Find the volume and the surface area of the double cone so formed. [take,  =
3.14]
41. A cylindrical pipe has inner. diameter of 7 cm and water flows through it at 192.5 L per min. Find the
rate of flow in km/h [take,  =22/7]
42. Water is flowing at the rate of 15 km/h through a pipe of diameter 14 cm into a cuboidal pond which is
50 m long and 44 m wide. In what time will the level of water in pond rise by 21cm?
43. A building is in the form of a cylinder surmounted by a hemispherical dome (see the figure). The base
2
diameter of the dome is equal to of the total height of the building . Find the height of the building,
3
1
if it containst 67 m3 cof air.
21
44. The interior of a building is in the form of cylinder of diameter 4.3 m and 3.8 m height, surmounted by
a cone whose vertical angle is a right angle. Find the area of the surface and the volume of building.
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ANSWER
1. 126 cm2 2. 6 cm
3. 21 cm 4. 9735 m2
5. 205.33 cm3 6. 1437.3 cm3.
7. 166.83 cm2. 8. 628 cm3.
9. TSA = 1408 cm2, Vol. = 3850 cm3. 10. 1260 cm
11. 84(approx.) 12. 972 m
13. 0.83 cm 14. 21 cm
15. 277 cm3. 16. 90 cm
17. 14 cm 18. 6,8,10
1122 2
19. 180  cm2. 20. m
7
21. 648 22. 3m
2
23. 551 cm . 24. 376.8 cm3.
25. 8745 m2. 26. 1381.6 cm2.
9317
27. 0.40m 28.
0.0655
29. TSA = 1959.36 cm2, ` 293.90 (approx.) 30. 150 marbles
31. 20 cm, ` 313.80 32. x = 3.5 cm, CSA = 462 cm2.
34. 2 cm 35. 50,000 words
36. 8.7318 kg 37. 29.7 kg
3
38. 526.17 cm . 39. 171.69 cm2.
40. 3768 cm3, 1318.8 cm2. 41. 3 km/h.
42. 2 h. 43. 6m
2 3
44. SA = 71.83 m , Vol. = 65.56 m .