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SOLID GEOMETRY

SOLID GEOMETRY 9. A regular hexagonal pyramid has a volume of 280.59

m3 and an altitude of 9 m. What is the base edge in
meters?
PRISMS
a. 5 m c. 7 m
Situation 1: A box open at the top has a rectangular base of 200
b. 6 m d. 8 m
mm x 300 mm and an altitude of 150 mm. If the base and the
10. The volume of regular tetrahedron is 22.81 m3. Find the
sides are 10 mm thick:
total surface area.
1. Find the volume of the material used in making the box.
a. 57.96 m2 c. 27.86 m2
a. 1 440 000 mm3 c. 1 944 000 mm3 2
3 b. 43.47 m d. 20.90 m2
b. 2 448 000 mm d. 1 286 000 mm3
2. Find the total surface area of the box.
CONES
a. 389 800 mm2 c.389 900 mm2
2 11. A cone was formed by rolling a thin sheet of metal in a
b. 398 800 mm d. 398 800 mm2
form of a sector of a circle 72 cm in diameter with a
central angle of 1500. What is the volume of the cone?
3. Pass a plane through a cube so that the section formed
a. 637.2 cm3 c. 725.4 cm3
will be a regular hexagon. If the area of the hexagon is 3
b. 692.8 cm d. 771.8 cm3
420.89 m2, find the edge of the cube.
12. A cone has a total surface area of 386 cm2. If its
a. 9 m c. 18 m
diameter is one – half its altitude, find its altitude.
b. 15 m d. 22 m
a. 18.76 cm c. 20.19 cm
b. 17.04 cm d. 19.59 cm
CYLINDERS

FRUSTUMS
4. A right circular cylindrical tank has a lateral area of
13. The lower base of the frustum of a rectangular pyramid
28.08 m2 and a base area of 5.94 m2. Find its volume.
is 5 m x 8 m. The volume is 116.667 cu. m and the
a. 16.32 m3 c. 18.21 m3
3 altitude is 5 m. What is the area of upper base in sq. m?
b. 17.80 m d. 19.30 m3
a. 8 c. 12
5. 45.48 sq. m of metal sheet was used to construct a
b. 10 d. 14
cylindrical tank with an open top. The height of the tank
14. The base diameters of a frustum of a right circular cone
is 1.5 times its diameter. Find the radius of the tank.
are 2 m and 4 m. Find its lateral area if it has an altitude
a. 1.25 m c. 1.75 m
of 5 m.
b. 1.50 m d. 2.00 m
a. 74.92 m2 c. 48.06 m2
2
b. 101.51 m d. 92.06 m2
POLYGONAL PRISM
6. The volume of a right prism whose height is 6 cm is
PRISMATOID
371.61 cm3. Each base has five equal sides. What is the
15. The base diameter of a certain solid is 30 cm. Find the
base edge in cm?
volume of the solid if every cutting plane perpendicular
a. 5 cm c. 7 cm
to a given diameter is an equilateral triangle.
b. 6 cm d. 8 cm
a. 3 897.11 cm3 c. 7 794.23 cm3
3
b. 15 588.46 cm d. 11 691.34 cm3
TRUNCATED PRISMS
7. A truncated prism has a horizontal triangular base ABC
SPHERES
with AB = 10 cm, BC = 12 cm, and CA = 8 cm. The
16. Two spherical balls, one 8 cm in diameter and the other
vertical edges through A, B, and C are 20 cm, 12 cm,
5 cm in diameter, is placed in a cylindrical jar 10 cm in
and 18 cm, respectively. Determine the volume of the
diameter. Find the volume of water necessary to cover
prism.
them.
a. 561.44 cm3 c. 661.44 cm3
a. 670.15 cm3 c. 607.15 cm3
b. 691.44 cm3 d. 621.44 cm3 3
b. 538.48 cm d. 583.48 cm3
17. The total volume of two spheres is 100π cubic units.
PYRAMIDS
The ratio of their areas is 4:9. What is the volume of the
8. A square pyramid has a base dimension of 4.20 cm and
smaller sphere in cubic units?
a lateral edge of 15 cm. find the volume.
a. 75.85 c. 71.81
a. 73.94 cm3 c. 86.45 cm3
3 b. 314.16 c. 242.36
b. 78.61 cm d. 82.05 cm3

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SPHERICAL SEGMENT AND ZONE

18. What is the area in m2 of the zone of a spherical
segment having a volume of 1 470.265 m3 if the
diameter of the sphere is 30 m?
a. 465.5 m2 c. 665.5 m2
2
b. 565.5 m d. 656.5 m2
19. A mixture compound of two equal parts of two liquids,
one white and the other black, was placed in a
hemispherical bowl. The total depth of two liquids is 6
in. After standing for a short time, the mixture
separated, the white liquid settling below the black. If
the thickness of the segment of the black liquid is 2 in.,
find the radius of the bowl in inches.
a. 7.33 c. 7.73
b. 7.53 d. 7.93

SPHERICAL WEDGE AND LUNE

20. Find the volume of a spherical wedge having a radius
of 2 m and central angle of 1.25 radians.
a. 7.67 m3 c. 5.67 m3
3
b. 4.67 m d. 6.67 m3
21. The volume of a spherical wedge is 172.80 m3 and the
area of its lune is 86.40 m2. Find the radius of the
sphere.
a. 6 m c. 8 m
b. 7 m d. 9 m

SPHERICAL CONE/SECTOR
22. Find the volume of a spherical sector with a central
angle of 600 in a sphere of radius 15 cm.
a. 891.44 cm3 c. 947.00 cm3
3
b. 850.87 cm d. 974.39 cm3

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