Janardan Bhagat Shikshan Prasarak Sanstha's
Ramsheth Thakur Public School, Kharghar
Plot No.11 & 11A, Sec-19, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410210, Tel No-022-27744410, 27744577
CBSE Affiliation No: 1130299 School No. 30310 u-dise no.27240806133
Practice Set
Subject: Mathematics (041)
STD : IX
Chapter: (Surface Area and Volume)
Q1. The length, breadth and height of a cuboid are 15 cm, 10 cm and 20 cm respectively. Find its
total surface area.
Q2. Sunita had to make a model of a cylindrical kaleidoscope for her science project. She wanted to
use chart paper to make the curved surface of the kaleidoscope, what would be the area of chart
paper required by her, if she wanted to make a kaleidoscope of length 25 cm with a 3.5 cm radius?
Q3. The height of a cone is 16 cm and its base radius is 12 cm. Find: (i) the curved surface area,
(ii) total surface area of the cone. [Use 𝛑 = 3.14]
Q4. If the slant height and the base radius of a cone are 10 cm and 8 cm respectively, then find
(i) curved surface area and
(ii) total surface area. [Take π = 3.14]
Q5. The hollow sphere in which the circus motor cyclist performs his stunts, has a diameter of 7 m,
Find the area available to the motor cyclist for riding.
Q6. A hemispherical dome of a building needs to be painted. if the circumference of the base of the
dome is 17.6 m, find the cost of painting it, given the cost of painting is Rs. 5 per 100 cm 2.
Q7. A wall of length 10 m was to be built across an open ground. The height of the wall is 4 m and
thickness of the wall is 24 cm. If this wall is to be built up with bricks whose dimensions are
24 cm X 12 cm X 8 cm, how many bricks would be required?
Q8. The pillars of a temple are cylindrical shaped. if each pillar has a circular base of radius 20 cm
and height 10 m, how much concrete mixture would be required to build 14 such pillars?
Q9. The sides of a right triangle are 7 cm, 24 cm and 25 cm. If it is revolved about its side 7 cm to
form a solid cone find the volume of the solid so formed.
Q10.Two cones have their base radii in ratio of 3 : 1 and the ratio of their heights as 1 : 3. Find the
ratio of their volumes.
Q11.Two cubes of edge 6 cm are joined to form a cuboid. Find the total surface area of the cuboid
Q12. How many balls, each of radius 2 cm can be made from a solid sphere of lead of radius 8 cm?
Q13. A cone is 8.4 cm high and the radius of its base is 2.1 cm. It is melted and recast into a sphere.
Find the radius of the sphere.
Q14. A school provides milk to the students daily in cylindrical glasses of diameter 7 cm. If the glass
is filled with milk up to a height of 12 cm, find how many litres of milk is needed to serve 1600
students.
Q15. A rectangular piece of paper is 22 cm long and 10 cm wide. A cylinder is formed by rolling the
paper along its length. Find the volume of the cylinder.
Q16. Using clay, Anant made a right circular cone of height 48 cm and base radius 12 cm. Versha
reshapes it in the form of a sphere. Find the radius and curved surface area of the sphere so
formed.
Q17. A metallic right circular cylinder is 15 cm high and the diameter of its base is 14 cm. It is melted
and recasted into another cylinder with radius 4 cm. Find its height and curved surface area of
the new cylinder.
Q18. A solid cube of side 7 cm is melted to make a cone of height 3 cm, find the radius of the base
of the cone.
Q19. A cylindrical bucket 32 cm high and with base diameter 36 cm is filled with wheat. This bucket
is emptied on the ground and a conical heap is formed. If the height of the conical heap is 24
cm, find the radius and slant height of the heap.
Q20. A room’s given length, breadth, and height are 5 m, 4 m and 3 m, respectively. Find out the cost
of whitewashing the walls of the room and ceiling at the given rate of Rs 7.50 per m
Q21. The radii of two cylinders are in the ratio of 2 : 3 and their heights are in the ratio of 5 : 3. Find
the ratio of their volumes.
Q22. Find the length of the longest pole that can be put in a room of dimensions (10m x 10m x 5m).
Q23. The radius of a hemispherical balloon increases from 6 cm to 12 cm as air is being pumped into
it. Then find the ratios of the surface areas of the balloon in the two cases.
Q24. Find the amount of water displaced by a solid spherical ball of diameter 4.2 cm, when it is
completely immersed in water.
Q25. How many square metres of canvas is required for a conical tent whose height is 3.5 m and the
radius of the base is 12 m?
Q26. A right triangle with sides 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm is revolved about the side 8 cm. Find the
volume and the curved surface of the solid so formed.
Q27. 30 circular plates, each of radius 14 cm and thickness 3 cm are placed one above the another
to form a cylindrical solid.
Find
1. the total surface area.
2. volume of the cylinder so formed.
Q28. The diameter of the base of a given cone is 10.5 cm, and its required slant height is 10 cm. Find
out its curved surface area
Q29. A matchbox measures 4 cm×2.5cm×1.5cm. What will be the required volume of a packet
containing 12 such boxes?
Q30. The height of a given cone is 15cm. If its volume is 1570cm³, find out the diameter of its base.
(Use π = 3.14)
