ASSIGNMENT - MENSURATION
1. (i) The diagram shows a 10 cm cube.
A triangular pyramid is cut from the corner of the
cube at A. The cut is made halfway along each of
the edges meeting at A as shown. Calculate the
volume, in cubic centimetres, of the pyramid.
(ii) Another 10 cm cube is cut as shown.
A prism containing the corners B and C
is removed.
Calculate the volume which remains.
2. The base of a pyramid is a square with diagonals of
length 6 cm.
The sloping faces are isosceles triangles with equal
sides of length 7 cm.
The height of the pyramid is √l cm.
Calculate l.
3. ABCDE is a pyramid.
The base BCDE is a square of side 10 cm.
The sloping faces are isosceles triangles.
AB = AC = AD = AE = 13 cm.
(a) Calculate the area of the sloping face ABC.
(b) The pyramid ABCDE is joined to an identical
pyramid BCDEF to form the solid ABCDEF.
(i) Calculate the surface area of the solid
ABCDEF.
(ii) Describe fully the locus of all points which are
equidistant from A and F.
4.
The diagrams show two ways of packaging 4 identical balls.
The radius of each ball is 3 cm.
Diagram I shows a closed rectangular box with a square base. Each ball touches the top, the bottom
and two sides of the box. Each ball also touches two other balls.
Diagram II shows a closed cylinder. The balls touch the ends and the side of the cylinder.
(a) (i) Write down the dimensions of the rectangular box.
(ii) Calculate the total surface area of the outside of this box.
(b) Calculate the total surface area of the outside of the cylinder.
(c) Calculate the total volume of the 4 balls.
(d) Calculate, correct to three decimal places, the value of, volume of the cylinder / volume of the box.
(e) Hence state which of the two containers has more space not occupied by the balls.
5. A closed container is made by joining together
a cylinder of radius 9 cm and a hemisphere
of radius 9 cm as shown in Diagram I.
The length of the cylinder is 18 cm.
The container rests on a horizontal
surface and is exactly half full of water.
(a) Calculate the surface area of the inside of the
container that is in contact with the water.
Give your answer correct to the nearest square
centimetre.
(b) Show that the volume of the water is 972π
cm3.
(c) The container is held with its axis vertical, the
hemisphere being at the bottom, as shown
in Diagram II.
Calculate the depth of the water.
6.
(a) A wooden cuboid has length 20 cm, width 7 cm and height 4 cm. Three hemispheres, each of
radius 2.5 cm, are hollowed out of the top of the cuboid, to leave the block as shown in the diagram.
(i) Calculate the volume of wood in the block.
(ii) The four vertical sides are painted blue. Calculate the total area that is painted blue.
(iii) The inside of each hemispherical hollow is painted white. The flat part of the top of the block is
painted red. Calculate the total area that is painted
(a) white,
(b) red.
(b) The volume of water in a container is directly proportional to the cube of its depth.
When the depth is 12 cm, the volume is 576 cm3. Calculate
(i) the volume when the depth is 6 cm,
(ii) the depth when the volume is 1300 cm3.
7.
A hot water tank is made by joining a hemisphere of radius 30 cm to an open cylinder of radius 30 cm and
height 70 cm.
(a) Calculate the total surface area, including the base, of the outside of the tank. [4]
(b) The tank is full of water.
(i) Calculate the number of litres of water in the tank. [3]
(ii) The water drains from the tank at a rate of 3 litres per second.
Calculate the time, in minutes and seconds, to empty the tank.
(iii)
All of the water from the tank runs into a bath, which it just completely fills. The bath is a prism whose
cross-section is a trapezium. The lengths of the parallel sides of the trapezium are 0.4 m and 0.6 m.
The depth of the bath is 0.3 m. Calculate the length of the bath.
8. (a) Compost for growing plants consists of 3 parts of soil to 2 parts of sand to 1 part of peat.
(i) Calculate the number of litres of sand in a 75 litre bag of compost. [2]
(ii) Compost is sold in 5 litre, 25 litre and 75 litre bags costing $2, $8.75 and $27 respectively.
Showing your working clearly, state which bag represents the best value for money.
(b)
The diagram shows a plant pot. The open end of the plant pot is a circle of radius 10 cm. The closed
end is a circle of radius 5 cm. The height of the plant pot is 12 cm. The plant pot is part of a right
circular cone of height 24 cm.
(i) Calculate the volume of the plant pot. Give your answer in litres.
(ii) How many of these plant pots can be completely filled from a 75 litre bag of compost?
(iii) A smaller plant pot is geometrically similar to the original plant pot.
The open end of this plant pot is a circle of radius 5 cm.
How many of these plant pots can be completely filled from a 75 litre bag of compost?
9.
The diagram shows a roll of material. The material is wound onto a metal cylinder whose cross-
section is a circle of radius 10 cm. The shaded area shows the cross-section of the material on the roll.
The outer layer of material forms the curved surface of a cylinder of radius 30 cm.
(i) Calculate, in square centimetres, the area of the cross-section of the material on the roll (shaded on
the diagram).
(ii) The material is 200 cm wide on the roll. Calculate, in cubic metres, the volume of the material.
(iii) When unwound, the length of the material is 150 m. Calculate the thickness of the material, giving
your answer in millimetres.
