MENSURATION (GRADE 9)

Specific Objectives:
 Calculate the perimeter and area of trapezium and kite
 Calculate the area of a circle using the formula
 Find the diameter or radius of a circle when the area is given
 Calculate the surface area of cubes, cuboid and closed cylinders
 Calculate the volume of closed cylinders
 Calculate unknown dimension of cylinders, if the volume and other sufficient
information is given.

QUESTIONS:

1. The diagram shows a circle of centre O, with line AB = 14 cm.

(a) State the special name for line AB.

…………………………………………….[1]
22
(b) Calculate the circumference of the circle. (π = 7 )

………………………………………...[2]

2. The diagram shows a right angled triangle.

The area of the triangle is 30 cm2. 13 cm
height
Calculate its height.

12 cm

…………….…………….cm[2]

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 3. Calculate the area of the kite.
6 cm

8 cm

………………………………cm2[2]

4. Calculate the area of the circle with a radius of 21 cm. (Use π = 22

7 )

NOT TO
SCALE
21 cm

…………………………….cm2[2]
A 5 cm B
5.

6 cm

D 12 cm C

(a) Give a geometrical name of shape ABCD.

………………………………………………………………………………………. [1]
(b) Calculate the area of shape ABCD.

………………………….cm2[2]
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 6. The diagram shows 4 different shapes.

Shape A Shape B Shape C Shape D

12 cm
3 cm
5.4 cm 5.8 cm 7 cm
7 cm 5 cm 14 cm
4 cm
8 cm 13 cm

(a) Calculate the circumference of shape A. (Use π = 22

7 )

…………………………….cm [2]
(b) Calculate the area of shape B.

……………………………….cm2[2]
(c) Calculate the volume of shape D.

……………………….cm3[2]

(d) The volume of shape C is 6 333.5 cm3. Write down the volume of shape C in litres.

…………………………………𝑙[1]

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 7. The volume of a cube is 125 cm3.
NOT TO SCALE V = 125 cm3
Calculate the length of one of it sides.

……………………………cm [2]

8. Diagram 1 shows a cylinder and diagram 2 shows a triangular prism.

Diagram 1
Diagram 2

NOT TO SCALE NOT TO SCALE

Complete the nets:
(a) [1] (b) [1]

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 9.
NOT TO SCALE
35 cm
(a) The volume of a cylindrical water container
when full is 200 200 cm3. h V = 200 200 cm3
The water container has a radius of 35 cm. (Use π = 22
7 )
Calculate the height, h, of the container.

……………………………cm [2]

(b) Atuhe Nursery school built a square-based cuboid on the playground.

Its dimensions are 3 m by 3 m by 8 m.
Calculate the volume of the cuboid.

3m

8m

……………………………….cm2[2]

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 10.
44 cm
35 cm

A cylindrical tank, with radius 35 cm, is filled with water to a

depth of 44 cm.
(a) Calculate the area of the base of the tank.

………………………………. cm2 [2]

(b) Calculate the volume of water in the tank.

………………………………….. cm3 [1]

(c) Change your answer to part (b) in litres.

……………………………….𝑙[1]

11. The diagram shows a cylindrical tablet container with a diameter of 4 cm and a
height of 10 cm.

10 cm
10 cm

4 cm 24 cm
48 cm
(a) Calculate the volume of one cylindrical container.

…………………………………… cm3 [2]

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(b) The cylindrical containers are packed in a box that is in the shape of a cuboid.
The box is 48 cm long, 24 cm wide and 10 cm high.
(i) How many cylindrical containers can be packed in the box?

…………………………………..[2]
(ii) Calculate the volume of the box.

………………………………… cm3 [2]

(iii) Find the volume of the empty space in the box filled with tubes.

………………………………………. Cm3 [2]

(c) Calculate the surface area of the carton used to make the box.

………………………………………… cm2 [2]

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 12. A rectangular piece of land is 57.6 meters long and 48.6 meters wide.
57.6 m

48.6 m

(a) Calculate the perimeter of the piece of land.

……………………….m [1]

(b) How many fencing panels of width 1.8 m will be required to fence the piece of land?

A ………………………………. Panels[2]

13.

D
8m
4m

B 5m C

(a) Give the special name for shape ABCD.

……………………………………… [1]
(b) Calculate the shaded area.

………………………………… cm2 [2]

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 14. Diagram A shows an empty scale pan. Diagram B shows
the same scale pan with fish in it.

What is the mass of the fish? Give your answer in kg.

…………………………….kg [2]

15. The diagram shows two cups containing different volumes

of lemonade.

litre 275 ml
lemonade
lemonade

X Y

(a) Which cup, X or Y contains more lemonade?

……………………[1]
(b) What is the difference between the two volumes of lemonade?

…………………………..[1]

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 16. The perimeter of the rectangle is given by P = 2(l + b). in the diagram, the length of
a rectangle is 5 cm and the breadth is 3 cm.

5 cm

NOT TO
SCALE 3 cm

Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle.

………………………cm [1]

Calculate the breadth, b of a rectangle if

P = 20 cm and l = 8 cm.

…………………….cm [1]

Calculate the area of the circle with radius 5 cm.

5 cm

………………………………cm2[2]

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 17. The diagram shows a box in the shape of a cube with
sides 15 cm. A cylindrical tin fits exactly into the box as shown.

15 cm

15 cm
(a) Calculate the volume of the box.

……………………….cm2[2]
(b) (i) Write down the diameter of the tin.

…………………….…cm [1]
(ii) Write down the height of the tin.

………………………….cm [1]
(iii) Calculate the volume of the tin.

………………………….cm2[2]
(c) Calculate the volume of space between the box and the tin.

…………………………….cm3[1]

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18. Workout the following :
(a) If the volume of the cylinder is 62.9cm3 and height is 5cm
(i) Calculate the radius of the cylinder

……………………………………………..cm [2]
(ii) Calculate the total surface area of the cylinder

……………………………………….cm2 [3]
(b) If the volume of the cylinder is 307.9cm3 and radius is 3.5cm , calculate the total
surface area of the cylinder.

……………………………….cm2[5]

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