Name: _________________________ Date: ________________

Surface Area – Pyramids and Cones

Find the area of each lateral face of the regular pyramid and the lateral area of the cone.

1. 2.

Find the surface area.

3. regular pyramid 4. right cone

5. right cone 6.
7.

Sketch the described solid and find its surface area. Round your answer to two decimal places.
8. A regular pyramid has a slant height of 12 inches. Its base is a square with a base edge length of 18
inches.

9. A right cone has a diameter of 12 meters and a slant height of 9 meters.

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VOLUMES
Find the volume of each solid. Round your answer to two decimal places.
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 7.

Find the volume of the solid by determining how many unit cubes are contained in the solid.

8.

9.

10.

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Find the length x using the given volume V.
11. V=1440 m3

5. V=360 ft3

6.
V=64 in.3

7.
V=147 cm3

8.
V=56 m3

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Find the volume of the solid. The prisms and cylinders are right. Round your answer to two decimal
places.
16. .

17.

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Name: ______________________________ Date: ___________________
SPHERES
Find the surface area and volume of each sphere. Round your answer to two decimal places.
1.

2.

3.

4. Multiple Choice What is the approximate radius of a sphere with a surface area of 40 square
feet?
A. 2 ft
B. 3.16 ft
C. 6.32 ft
D. 10 ft

5. Great Circle The circumference of a great circle of a sphere is 24.6 meters. What is the surface
area of the sphere? Round your answer to two decimal places.

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Find the radius of the sphere with the given volume V. Round your answer to two decimal places.
6. V =64 in.3

7. V = 150 cm3

8. V =152 m3

9. Multiple Choice What is the approximate radius of a sphere with a volume of 128 cubic
centimeters?
A. 2.5 cm
B. 4.58 cm
C. 6.62 cm
D. 8 cm

Find the surface area and the volume of the solid. The cylinders and cones are right. Round your
answer to two decimal places.
10.

11.

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Complete the table below. Leave your answers in terms of .

Circumference of Surface area of

Radius of sphere Volume of sphere
great circle sphere
12. 12mm

13. 8 in.

14. 49 ft2

15. 288 m3

16. Finding a Diameter, the volume of a sphere is 972π cubic centimeters. What is the diameter of the
sphere?

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Group Activity
INVESTIGATE SIMILAR SOLIDS

Step 1: Working in groups of four, assign each person to complete one column as labeled below using
the given diagrams. Use scrap paper to arrive at answers. Answers may be left in terms of pi.

Ratio Surface Area Surface Area SAA Volume Volume VA

of Sides of A of B of A of B
(scale factor SAB VB
of A to B) Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4

Pair 1

Pair 2

Step 2: As a group, compare the ratio of the surface areas to the ratio of the sides for each pair of similar
solids. Make a conjecture about their relationship.

Step 3: As a group, compare the ratio of the volumes to the ratio of the sides for each pair of similar
solids. Make a conjecture about their relationship.

Step 4: Summarize here –

Tell whether the pair of right solids is similar. If so, determine the scale factor.
1. (a) (b)

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2. Two spheres have a scale factor of 1:3. The smaller sphere has a surface area of 16 square feet.
Find the surface area of the larger sphere.

3. Two right cylinders are similar. The surface areas are 24 and 96. What is the ratio of the
volumes of the cylinders?

4. Two cubes have volumes of 64 cubic feet and 216 cubic feet. What is the ratio of the surface area
of the smaller cube to the surface area of the larger cube?

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