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Volume and Surface Area Questions

The document contains 6 multi-part math word problems involving geometry concepts like volumes and surface areas of prisms, cylinders, cones, and sectors. The problems ask the reader to use formulas to calculate missing values like lengths, radii, volumes, surface areas, and percentages. Diagrams with labeled measurements are provided to illustrate each geometry shape.

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Volume and Surface Area Questions

The document contains 6 multi-part math word problems involving geometry concepts like volumes and surface areas of prisms, cylinders, cones, and sectors. The problems ask the reader to use formulas to calculate missing values like lengths, radii, volumes, surface areas, and percentages. Diagrams with labeled measurements are provided to illustrate each geometry shape.

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1 The diagram shows a horizontal water trough in the shape of a prism.

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12 cm
6 cm
120 cm
25 cm

The cross section of this prism is a trapezium.


The trapezium has parallel sides of lengths 35 cm and 25 cm and a perpendicular height of 12 cm.
The length of the prism is 120 cm.

(a) Calculate the volume of the trough.


(b) The trough contains water to a depth of 6 cm.

(i) Show that the volume of water is 19 800 cm3.

Answer (b)(i)
(ii) Calculate the percentage of the trough that contains water.

(c) The water is drained from the trough at a rate of 12 litres per hour.

Calculate the time it takes to empty the trough.


Give your answer in hours and minutes.
Answer(c) ................. h ................. min

(d) The water from the trough just fills a cylinder of radius r cm and height 3r cm.
Calculate the value of r.
(e) The cylinder has a mass of 1.2 kg.
1 cm3 of water has a mass of 1 g.
Calculate the total mass of the cylinder and the water.
Give your answer in kilograms.
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2 (a)
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13 cm

25 cm

The diagram shows a solid made up of a cylinder and two hemispheres.


The radius of the cylinder and the hemispheres is 13 cm.
The length of the cylinder is 25 cm.

(i) One cubic centimetre of the solid has a mass of 2.3 g.

Calculate the mass of the solid.


Give your answer in kilograms.
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[The volume, V, of a sphere with radius r is V = rr 3 .]
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(ii) The surface of the solid is painted at a cost of $4.70 per square metre.

Calculate the cost of painting the solid.

[The surface area, A, of a sphere with radius r is A = 4rr 2 .]


(b)

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x cm

The cone in the diagram has radius x cm and height 2x cm.


The volume of the cone is 500 cm3.
Find the value of x.
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[The volume, V, of a cone with radius r and height h is V = rr 2 h .]
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(c) Two mathematically similar solids have volumes of 180 cm3 and 360 cm3.
The surface area of the smaller solid is 180 cm2.
Calculate the surface area of the larger solid.
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0.8 cm
1.1 cm
1.5 cm
The diagram shows two sweets.
The cuboid has length 1.5 cm, width 1.1 cm and height 0.8 cm.
The cylinder has height 0.8 cm and the same volume as the cuboid.

(i) Calculate the volume of the cuboid.


(ii) Calculate the radius of the cylinder.
(iii) Calculate the difference between the surface areas of the two sweets.

24 cm
A B

r
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18 cm SCALE

The diagram shows the cross section of a cylinder, centre O, radius r, lying on its side.
The cylinder contains water to a depth of 18 cm.
The width, AB, of the surface of the water is 24 cm.
(a) Use an algebraic method to show that r = 13 cm.
(b) Show that angle AOB = 134.8°, correct to 1 decimal place.
(c) (i) Calculate the area of the major sector OAPB.

(ii) Calculate the area of the shaded segment APB.

(iii)
The length of the cylinder is 40 cm.
Calculate the volume of water in the cylinder.
(d) The cylinder is turned so that it stands on one of its circular ends.
In this position, the depth of the water is h.

Find h.

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h
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10 cm

3 cm

The diagram shows a hollow cone with radius 3 cm and slant height 10 cm.
(a) (i) Calculate the curved surface area of the cone.
[The curved surface area, A, of a cone with radius r and slant height l is A = rrl .]
(ii) Calculate the perpendicular height of the cone.
(iii) Calculate the volume of the cone.
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[The volume, V, of a cone with radius r and height h is V = rr 2 h .]
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(b) O

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10 cm

3 cm
P

The cone is cut along the line OP and is opened out into a sector as shown in the diagram.
Calculate the sector angle x.
(c)
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The diagram shows the same sector as in part (b). Calculate the area of the shaded segment.

6 (a) A sector of a circle has radius 12 cm and an angle of 135°.


(i) Calculate the length of the arc of this sector.
Give your answer as a multiple of π. NOT TO
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135° 12 cm
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(ii) The sector is used to make a cone.

(a) Calculate the base radius, r. NOT TO


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h 12 cm

(b) Calculate the height of the cone, h.


(b) The diagram shows a plant pot.
It is made by removing a small cone from a larger cone and adding a circular base.

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This is the cross section of the plant pot. 15 cm

(i) Find l.

35 cm

8 cm

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(ii) Calculate the total surface area of the outside of the plant pot.
[The curved surface area, A, of a cone with radius r and slant height l is A = πrl.]
(c) Some cones are mathematically similar.
For these cones, the mass, M grams, is proportional to the cube of the base radius, r cm.
One of the cones has mass 1458 grams and base radius 4.5 cm.

(i) Find an expression for M in terms of r.


(ii) Two of the cones have radii in the ratio 2 : 3.

Write down the ratio of their masses.

7 (a) Calculate the volume of a metal sphere of radius 15 cm and show that it rounds to 14 140 cm3, correct
to 4 significant figures.
[The volume, V, of a sphere with radius r is V = 43 rr 3 .]

(b) (i) The sphere is placed inside an empty cylindrical tank of radius 25 cm and height 60 cm.
The tank is filled with water.

25 cm
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60 cm

Calculate the volume of water required to fill the tank.


(ii) The sphere is removed from the tank.

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Calculate the depth, d, of water in the tank.


(c) The sphere is melted down and the metal is made into a solid cone of height 54 cm.
(i) Calculate the radius of the cone.
[The volume, V, of a cone with radius r and height h is V = 13 rr 2 h .]
(ii) Calculate the total surface area of the cone.
[The curved surface area, A, of a cone with radius r and slant height l is A = rrl .]
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8 (a) A cylindrical tank contains 180 000 cm3 of water.


The radius of the tank is 45 cm. 45 cm
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Calculate the height of water in the tank. SCALE

(b)

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40 cm
150 cm
A 50 cm B

The diagram shows an empty tank in the shape of a horizontal prism of length 150 cm.
The cross section of the prism is an isosceles trapezium ABCD.
AB = 50 cm, CD = 70 cm and the vertical height of the trapezium is 40 cm.

(i) Calculate the volume of the tank.


(ii) Write your answer to part (b)(i) in litres.

(c) The 180 000 cm3 of water flows from the tank in part (a) into the tank in part (b) at a rate of 15 cm3/s.

Calculate the time this takes.


Give your answer in hours and minutes.

(d)
D 70 cm C

x cm NOT TO
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40 cm
h cm

A 50 cm B

The 180 000 cm3 of water reaches the level EF as shown above.
EF = x cm and the height of the water is h cm.

(i) Using the properties of similar triangles, show that h = 2(x – 50).

Answer(d)(i)
(ii) Using h = 2(x – 50), show that the shaded area, in cm2, is x2 – 2500.

Answer(d)(ii)
(iii) Find the value of x.
(iv) Find the value of h.

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