Surface Areas and Volumes
Bihar Board · Class 9 · Mathematics
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1Diameter of the base of a cone is 10.5 cm and its slant height is 10 cm. Find its curved surface area.Show solution
Formula: Curved Surface Area of cone
Calculation:
Answer: The curved surface area of the cone is .
2Find the total surface area of a cone, if its slant height is 21 m and diameter of its base is 24 m.Show solution
Formula: Total Surface Area
Calculation:
Answer: The total surface area of the cone is approximately .
3Curved surface area of a cone is 308 cm² and its slant height is 14 cm. Find (i) radius of the base and (ii) total surface area of the cone.Show solution
(i) Finding the radius:
Radius of the base = 7 cm.
(ii) Total Surface Area:
Answer: (i) Radius cm; (ii) Total surface area .
4A conical tent is 10 m high and the radius of its base is 24 m. Find (i) slant height of the tent. (ii) cost of the canvas required to make the tent, if the cost of 1 m² canvas is ₹ 70.Show solution
(i) Slant height:
Slant height m.
(ii) Cost of canvas:
Canvas required = Curved Surface Area of the cone
Answer: (i) Slant height m; (ii) Cost of canvas .
5What length of tarpaulin 3 m wide will be required to make conical tent of height 8 m and base radius 6 m? Assume that the extra length of material that will be required for stitching margins and wastage in cutting is approximately 20 cm (Use π = 3.14).Show solution
Step 1: Find slant height.
Step 2: Find curved surface area of the cone.
Step 3: Find length of tarpaulin.
Step 4: Add extra length for wastage.
Answer: The required length of tarpaulin is .
6The slant height and base diameter of a conical tomb are 25 m and 14 m respectively. Find the cost of white-washing its curved surface at the rate of ₹ 210 per 100 m².Show solution
Step 1: Curved Surface Area.
Step 2: Cost of white-washing.
Answer: The cost of white-washing the curved surface of the conical tomb is .
7A joker's cap is in the form of a right circular cone of base radius 7 cm and height 24 cm. Find the area of the sheet required to make 10 such caps.Show solution
Step 1: Find slant height.
Step 2: Curved surface area of one cap.
Step 3: Area for 10 caps.
Answer: The area of the sheet required to make 10 caps is .
8A bus stop is barricaded from the remaining part of the road, by using 50 hollow cones made of recycled cardboard. Each cone has a base diameter of 40 cm and height 1 m. If the outer side of each of the cones is to be painted and the cost of painting is ₹ 12 per m², what will be the cost of painting all these cones? (Use π = 3.14 and take √1.04 = 1.02)Show solution
Step 1: Find slant height.
Step 2: Curved surface area of one cone.
Step 3: Total curved surface area of 50 cones.
Step 4: Cost of painting.
Answer: The cost of painting all 50 cones is approximately .
Exercise 11.2
1Find the surface area of a sphere of radius: (i) 10.5 cm (ii) 5.6 cm (iii) 14 cmShow solution
(i) cm:
(ii) cm:
(iii) cm:
Answers: (i) , (ii) , (iii) .
2Find the surface area of a sphere of diameter: (i) 14 cm (ii) 21 cm (iii) 3.5 mShow solution
(i) Diameter cm, cm:
(ii) Diameter cm, cm:
(iii) Diameter m, m:
Answers: (i) , (ii) , (iii) .
3Find the total surface area of a hemisphere of radius 10 cm. (Use π = 3.14)Show solution
Formula: Total surface area of hemisphere
Answer: Total surface area of the hemisphere .
4The radius of a spherical balloon increases from 7 cm to 14 cm as air is being pumped into it. Find the ratio of surface areas of the balloon in the two cases.Show solution
Formula: Surface area of sphere
Answer: The ratio of surface areas of the balloon in the two cases is .
5A hemispherical bowl made of brass has inner diameter 10.5 cm. Find the cost of tin-plating it on the inside at the rate of ₹ 16 per 100 cm².Show solution
Step 1: Curved surface area of hemisphere (inner side).
Step 2: Cost of tin-plating.
Answer: The cost of tin-plating the bowl on the inside is .
6Find the radius of a sphere whose surface area is 154 cm².Show solution
Formula:
Answer: The radius of the sphere is .
7The diameter of the moon is approximately one fourth of the diameter of the earth. Find the ratio of their surface areas.Show solution
So radius of earth and radius of moon .
Formula: Surface area
Answer: The ratio of the surface area of the moon to that of the earth is .
8A hemispherical bowl is made of steel, 0.25 cm thick. The inner radius of the bowl is 5 cm. Find the outer curved surface area of the bowl.Show solution
Outer radius cm.
Outer curved surface area:
Answer: The outer curved surface area of the bowl is .
9A right circular cylinder just encloses a sphere of radius r (see Fig. 11.10). Find (i) surface area of the sphere, (ii) curved surface area of the cylinder, (iii) ratio of the areas obtained in (i) and (ii).Show solution
Since the cylinder just encloses the sphere:
- Radius of cylinder
- Height of cylinder (diameter of sphere)
(i) Surface area of the sphere:
(ii) Curved surface area of the cylinder:
(iii) Ratio of surface area of sphere to curved surface area of cylinder:
Answer: (i) ; (ii) ; (iii) The ratio is .
Exercise 11.3
1Find the volume of the right circular cone with (i) radius 6 cm, height 7 cm (ii) radius 3.5 cm, height 12 cmShow solution
(i) cm, cm:
(ii) cm, cm:
Answers: (i) , (ii) .
2Find the capacity in litres of a conical vessel with (i) radius 7 cm, slant height 25 cm (ii) height 12 cm, slant height 13 cmShow solution
(i) cm, cm:
First find height: cm.
(ii) cm, cm:
First find radius: cm.
Answers: (i) litres, (ii) litres litres.
3The height of a cone is 15 cm. If its volume is 1570 cm³, find the radius of the base. (Use π = 3.14)Show solution
Formula:
Answer: The radius of the base of the cone is .
4If the volume of a right circular cone of height 9 cm is 48π cm³, find the diameter of its base.Show solution
Formula:
Answer: The diameter of the base is .
5A conical pit of top diameter 3.5 m is 12 m deep. What is its capacity in kilolitres?Show solution
Formula: Volume of cone
Since kilolitre:
Answer: The capacity of the conical pit is .
6The volume of a right circular cone is 9856 cm³. If the diameter of the base is 28 cm, find (i) height of the cone (ii) slant height of the cone (iii) curved surface area of the coneShow solution
(i) Height of the cone:
(ii) Slant height:
(iii) Curved surface area:
Answers: (i) Height cm; (ii) Slant height cm; (iii) CSA .
7A right triangle ABC with sides 5 cm, 12 cm and 13 cm is revolved about the side 12 cm. Find the volume of the solid so obtained.Show solution
When revolved about the side 12 cm, the triangle generates a cone where:
- Height cm (axis of revolution)
- Radius cm (the other leg)
- Slant height cm (hypotenuse)
Volume of cone:
Answer: The volume of the solid obtained is .
8If the triangle ABC in the Question 7 above is revolved about the side 5 cm, then find the volume of the solid so obtained. Find also the ratio of the volumes of the two solids obtained in Questions 7 and 8.Show solution
When revolved about the side 5 cm:
- Height cm
- Radius cm
Volume of cone:
Ratio of volumes (Q7 : Q8):
Answer: Volume ; Ratio of volumes (Q7 to Q8) .
9A heap of wheat is in the form of a cone whose diameter is 10.5 m and height is 3 m. Find its volume. The heap is to be covered by canvas to protect it from rain. Find the area of the canvas required.Show solution
Step 1: Volume of the heap.
Step 2: Slant height for canvas area.
Step 3: Curved surface area (canvas required).
Answer: Volume of the heap ; Area of canvas required .
Exercise 11.4
1Find the volume of a sphere whose radius is (i) 7 cm (ii) 0.63 mShow solution
(i) cm:
(ii) m:
More precisely:
Let us recalculate:
Using exact fractions: m
Note: Standard answer is .
Answers: (i) ; (ii) .
2Find the amount of water displaced by a solid spherical ball of diameter (i) 28 cm (ii) 0.21 mShow solution
(i) Diameter cm, cm:
(ii) Diameter m, m:
Answers: (i) ; (ii) .
3The diameter of a metallic ball is 4.2 cm. What is the mass of the ball, if the density of the metal is 8.9 g per cm³?Show solution
Step 1: Volume of the ball.
Step 2: Mass of the ball.
Answer: The mass of the metallic ball is approximately .
4The diameter of the moon is approximately one-fourth of the diameter of the earth. What fraction of the volume of the earth is the volume of the moon?Show solution
Let radius of earth , then radius of moon .
Formula: Volume of sphere
Answer: The volume of the moon is of the volume of the earth.
5How many litres of milk can a hemispherical bowl of diameter 10.5 cm hold?Show solution
Formula: Volume of hemisphere
Converting to litres ( litre):
Answer: The hemispherical bowl can hold approximately litres of milk.
6A hemispherical tank is made up of an iron sheet 1 cm thick. If the inner radius is 1 m, then find the volume of the iron used to make the tank.Show solution
Outer radius m.
Volume of iron used = Volume of outer hemisphere Volume of inner hemisphere:
Answer: The volume of iron used to make the tank is approximately .
7Find the volume of a sphere whose surface area is 154 cm².Show solution
Step 1: Find radius.
Step 2: Find volume.
Answer: The volume of the sphere is .
8A dome of a building is in the form of a hemisphere. From inside, it was white-washed at the cost of ₹ 4989.60. If the cost of white-washing is ₹ 20 per square metre, find the (i) inside surface area of the dome, (ii) volume of the air inside the dome.Show solution
(i) Inside surface area:
(ii) Volume of air inside the dome:
Curved surface area of hemisphere
Answers: (i) Inside surface area ; (ii) Volume of air .
9Twenty seven solid iron spheres, each of radius r and surface area S are melted to form a sphere with surface area S'. Find the (i) radius r' of the new sphere, (ii) ratio of S and S'.Show solution
(i) Radius of the new sphere:
Volume of 27 small spheres = Volume of new sphere
Radius of new sphere .
(ii) Ratio of and :
Answer: (i) ; (ii) .
10A capsule of medicine is in the shape of a sphere of diameter 3.5 mm. How much medicine (in mm³) is needed to fill this capsule?Show solution
Formula: Volume of sphere
Answer: The amount of medicine needed to fill the capsule is approximately .
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