Yr 7 Accelerated Mathematics

Class Notes

Circles and Cylinders

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Cylinders
Cylinders are essentially just prisms with the cross sections of circles.

Recall that;

V olume of a solid = unif orm cross sectional area (the slice) ×height

V = A×h (Area of rectangle ×height)

V = lbh

F or all prismims with unif orm cross sections, V = A ×h

Then by extension the formula for the volume of a cylinder is going to be;

As a cylinder is a ‘circular prism’, we can use the f ormula,

V = A ×h

H ere the cross − section of a circle is A = πr2

T hen the volume of a cylinder is

Examples

1. Find the volume of the following cylinders – give your answers in exact form as well as correct to
1 dp.

a)

b)

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c)

Further Examples
1. Find the volume of a cylindrical can of baked beans with dimensions; height 12 cm and radius 4
cm (to the nearest cm​3​).

_______________

2. Which one of these two cups holds the most water(correct to 2 d.p.)? (Hint: 1mL = 1 cm​3​)

_______________

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3. Find the volume of these solids, using π = 3.14, (correct to 2 d.p.).

a) _________________

b) _________________

4. The below wedding cake has 3 tiers. The top two tiers are each 8 cm high and the bottom tier is
10 cm high. The tiers have a radii of 8 cm, 10 cm and 14 cm respectively.

Find the total volume of the cake (to the nearest cm​3​). _________________

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5. The trunk of a tree (cylindrical in shape) is 10 m long and has a diameter of 0.7 m.

How many cubic metres of timber are there in the trunk (correct to 1 d.p.)? _________________

6. A manufacturer wanted to make a circular copper plate with an area of 154 cm2.

Find its radius (to the nearest cm). _________________

7. In the below figure show that the shaded area of the semicircle is equal to the area of the inner
circle.

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8. Two circles, each with radius 1 cm touch each other as shown. AB and CD are tangents to each
circle.

Find the shaded area (correct to the nearest 2 d.p.). _________________

9. The diagram shows 4 equal quadrants of a circle inside a square.

Find the area of the shaded region, leave your answer in exact form. _________________

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Volume and Capacity Problems

You probably have seen the following units of measure for volume:

1000mm3 = 1cm3

1 000 000cm3 = 1m3

However the capacity of an object is measured in millilitres (mL), litres (L) or kilolitres (kL)

Where do you think each of these measurements would be used?

TRIVIA: say for example I had an irregular shaped object such as the meteorite displayed below.
What is the quickest way to determine the VOLUME of such an object?

Then, 1cm3 = _______mL and 1000cm3 = ________L and 1m3 = ________L?

Knowing this, complete the following examples:

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