Volume and Surface Area Questions
Volume and Surface Area Questions
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35 cm
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12 cm
6 cm
120 cm
25 cm
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.
(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
(ii) The surface of the solid is painted at a cost of $4.70 per square metre.
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2x cm SCALE
x cm
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0.8 cm SCALE
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.
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.
(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.
135° 12 cm
10
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(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.
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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
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(b)
D C NOT TO
70 cm SCALE
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.
(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.
(d)
D 70 cm C
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F E SCALE
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.