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Mensuration (Areas and Volumes)
Problems based on Plan figures
1. Three sides of a triangular field are of length 26 m, 28m and 30 m long respectively. Find the cost of sowing
seeds in the field at the rate of 5 rupees per sq.m?
2. At each corner of a triangular field of sides 14m, 48m and 50m, a cow is tethered by a rope of length 7m. The
area (sq. m) ungrazed by the cow is?
3 The area of an equilateral triangle is 9 √3 m2. The length (in m ) of the median is?
4. If D and E are the mid-points of the side AB and AC respectively of the Triangle ABC in the figure given here,
the shaded region of the triangle is what per cent of the whole triangular region?
5. Given that the ratio of altitudes of two triangles is 4 : 5, ratio of their areas is 3:2. The ratio of their
corresponding bases is?
6. Two sides of a plot measuring 32 m and 24 m and the angle between them is a perfect right angle. The other
two sides measure 25 m each and the other three angles are not right angles. The area of the plot in m2 is ?
7. Two circles with centre A and B and radius 2 units touch each other externally at ‘C’. A third circle with centre
‘C’ and radius ‘2’ units meets other two at D and E. Then the area of the quadrilateral ABDE is
8. An equilateral triangle of side 6 cm has its corners cut off to form a regular hexagon. Area (in cm2) of this
hexagon will be?
9. If the different between areas of the circum circle and the in circle of an equilateral triangle is 44 cm2, then the
area of the triangle is?
10. The base of a parallelogram is 36 units and the area of the isosceles triangle constructed on the same base
b/w the parallel lines of the parallelogram is 378 square units. Then the vertical distance b/w the parallel line is?
11. ABC is an isosceles right angled triangle with angle B=90o. On the sides AC and AB, two equilateral triangles
ACD and ABE have been constructed. The ratio of area of Triangle ABE and Triangle ACD is ?

1. If the diagonals of two squares are in the ratio of 2 : 5, their area will be in the ratio of ?
2. The area of a square is 4096 sq.cm. Find the ratio of the breadth and the length of a rectangle whose length is
twice the side of the square and breadth is 24 cm less than the side of the square?
3. The perimeter of a rhombus is 40 cm. If one of the diagonals be 12 cm long, what is the length of the other?
4. The diagonal of a square A is (a+b). The diagonal of a square whose area is twice the area of square A, is ?
5. The difference of the areas of two squares drawn on two line segments of different length is 32 sq.cm. Find
the length of the greater line segment if one is longer than the other by 2 cm.
6. A cow is tied on the corner of a rectangular field of size 30m x 25m by a 14m long rope. The area of the
region that she can graze?
7. A Playground is in the shape of a rectangle. A sum of Rs. I,000 was spent to make the ground usable at the
rate of 25 paise per sq.m. The breadth of the ground is 50 m. If the length of the ground is increased by 20 m,
what will be the expenditure (in repees) at the same rate per sq. m. ?
8. A hall 25 meters long and 15 meters broad is surrounded by a verandah of uniform width of 3.5 meters. The
cost of flooring the verandah, at Rs 25 per square meter is?
9. A took 15 sec. to cross a rectangular filed diagonally walking at the rate of 52m/min. and B took the same time
to cross the field along its sides walking at the rate of 68 m/ min. The area of the field is ?
10. The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular park is 3:2. If a man cycling along the
boundary of the park at the speed of 12 kmph completes one round in 8 minutes. Then the area of the park is
equal to ?
11. A wire in the form of a circle of radius 3.5 m is bent in the form of a rectangle, whose length and breadth
are in the ratio of 6:5. What is the area of the rectangle?
12. In trapezium ABCD, AB // CD and AB = 2CD. Its diagonals intersect at O. If the area of Triangle AOB = 84 cm2,
then the area of Triangle COD is equal to ?
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1. The outer circumference of a circular race-track is 528metre. The track is everywhere 14 meter wide. Cost of
leveling the track at the rate of Rs. 10 per sq. meter is ?
2. What would be the cost of building a 7 meters wide garden around a circular field with diameter equal to 28
meters if the cost per sq. meter for building the garden is 21?
3. The diameter of each wheel of a car is 70 cm. If each wheel rotates 400 times per minute, then the speed of
the car (in kmph) is ?
4. The D of a wheel is 98 cm. The number of revolutions in which it will have to cover a distance of 1540 m is ?
5. The perimeter (in meters) of a semicircle is numerically equal to its area (in square meters). The length of its
diameter is ?
Problems based on Solid figures
1. The edges of a cuboid are in the ratio 1:2:3 and its total surface area is 88cm2. The volume of the cuboid is ?
2. A wooden box measures 20 cm by 12 cm by 10 cm. Thickness of wood is 1 cm. Volume of wood to make the
box (in cubic cm) is ?
3. A rectangular sheet of metal is 40cm by 15cm. Equal squares of side 4cm are cut off at the corners and the
remainder is folded up to form an open rectangular box. The volume of the box is?
4. A right circular cylinder of height 16 cm is covered by a rectangular tin foil of size 16 cm 22 cm. The volume of
the cylinder is ?
5. The curved surface area and the total surface area of a cylinder are in the ratio 1:2. If the total surface area of
the right cylinder is 616 cm2, then its volume is?
6. A hollow iron pipe is 21 cm long and its exterior diameter is 8 cm. If the thickness of the pipe is 1 cm and iron
weight 8 g/cm3, then the weight of the pipe is ?
7. Water is being pumped out through a circular pipe whose internal diameter is 7cm. If the flow of water is 12
cm per sec and, how many liters of water is being pumped out in one hour ?
8. Each of the measure of the radius of base of a cone and that of a sphere is 8 cm. Also, the volume of these
two solids is equal. The slant height of the cone is?
9. The volume of a right circular cylinder and that of a sphere are equal and their radii are also equal. If the
height of cylinder be h and the diameter of the sphere d, Then which of the following relation is correct ?
10. In a right circular cone, the radius of its base is 7 cm and its height 24 cm. A cross-section is made through the
midpoint of the height parallel to the base. The Ratio of volume of upper portion to lower portion is?
11. By melting a solid lead sphere of diameter 12 cm, three small spheres are made whose diameters are in the
ratio 3:4:5. The radius (in cm) of the smallest sphere is ?
12. A sphere of radius 2 cm is put into water contained in a cylinder of base-radius 4 cm. If the sphere is
completely immersed in the water. The water level in the cylinder rised by ?
13. A metallic hemisphere is melted and recast in the shape of a cone with the same base radius (R) as that of the
hemisphere. If H is the height of the cone, then ?
14. The ratio of weights of two spheres of different materials is 8:17 and the ratio of weights per 1cc of materials
of each is 289:64. The ratio of radii of the two spheres is ?
15. A cone of height 15cm and base diameter 30 cm is carved out of a wooden sphere of radius 15 cm. The
percentage of wasted wood is?
17. A hemispherical cup of radius 4 cm is filled to the brim with coffee. The coffee is then poured into a vertical
cone of radius 8 cm and height 16 cm. The percentage of the volume of the cone that remains empty is ?
1. A right pyramid 6 m hight has a square base of which the diagonal is ∫1152 m. Volume of the pyramid is ?
2. The height of the right pyramid whose area of the base is 30 m3 and volume is 500 m3, is ?
3. Base of a right pyramid is a square whose area is 324 sq metre. If the volume of the pyramid is 1296
cu.metre, Then the area (in sq. metre) of the slant surface is ?
4. The base of a right prism is an equilateral triangle. If the lateral surface area and volume is 120 cm2, 40∫3 cm3
respectively then the side of base of the prism is ?
5. The base of a prism is a right angled triangle with two sides 5 cm and 12 cm. The height of the prism is 10 cm.
The total surface area of the prism is ?