Questions based on Mensuration

Level -1
(b) 12.5cm
Q1. The diameter of the base of a cylindrical (c) 14cm
drum is 35 dm and its height is 24 dm. It is (d) 13 cm
full of kerosene. How many tins, each of
size 25 cm × 22 cm × 35 cm can be filled Q6. The capacity of a cylindrical vessel is
with kerosene from the drum? 25.872 litres. If the height of the cylinder is
(a) 1000 three times the radius of its base, what is the
(b) 1200 area of the base?
(c) 1400 (a) 616cm square
(d) 1800 (b) 612cm square
(c) 600cm square
Q2. A wooden box measures 20 cm × 12 cm (d) 588cm square
× 10 cm. the thickness of the wood is 1 cm.
The volume of the wood required to make Q7. A tank is 7 m long and 4 m wide. At
the box is: what speed should water run through a
(a) 960 cm cube pipe 5 cm broad and 4 cm deep so that in 6
(b) 900 cm cube hours and 18 minutes, the water level in the
(c) 1000 cm cube tank rises by 4.5 m?
(d) 1100 cm cube (a) 12 kmph
(b) 10 kmph
Q3. If the areas of the three adjacent faces of (c) 14 kmph
a cubical box are 120 cm square, 72 cm (d) 18 kmph
square and 60 cm square respectively, then
the volume of the box is: Q8. The water in a rectangular reservoir
(a) 800 cm cube having a base 80 m by 60 m is 6.5 m deep. In
(b) 680 cm cube what time can the water be emptied by a
(c) 700 cm cube pipe of which the cross-section is a square
(d) 720 cm cube of side 20 cm, if the water runs through the
pipe at the rate of 15 km per hour?
Q4. The size of a wooden block is (15 cm × (a) 40 hrs.
12 cm × 20 cm). How many such blocks will (b) 58hrs.
be required to construct a solid wooden (c) 54hrs.
cube of minimum size? (d) 52 hrs.
(a) 50
(b) 40 Q9. A cistern of capacity 8000 litres
(c) 60 measures externally 3.3 m by 2.6 m by 1.1 m
(d) 55 and its walls are 5 cm thick. The thickness of
the bottom is:
Q5. The ratio of the radius and height of a (a) 22dm
cone is 5 : 12. Its volume is 2200/7 cm cube. (b) 1 dm
Its slant height is: (c) 42 dm
(a) 15cm (d) 2dm
Q10. A right-angle triangle having base 6.3 Q15. The area of a triangle is 216 cm2 and
m and height equal to 10 m is turned its sides are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. The
around the height. Find the volume of the perimeter of the triangle is
cone thus formed. (a) 6 cm
(a) 410 m cube (b) 12 cm
(b) 415.8 m cube (c) 36 cm
(c) 512.6m cube (d) 72 cm
(d) 504m cube
Q16. Two solid cylinders of radii 4 cm and 5
Q11. The surface area of cube is 864 cm cm and lengths 6 cm and 4 cm, respectively
square. Find its volume. are recast into cylindrical disc of thickness 1
(a) 1728 cm cube cm. The radius of the disc is
(b) 1628 cm cube (a) 7 cm
(c) 1748 cm cube (b) 14 cm
(d) 1720 cm cube (c) 21 cm
(d) 28 cm
Q12. The perimeter of a square is equal to
twice the perimeter of a rectangle of length Q17. The outer circumference of a 1 cm
of 8 cm and breadth 7 cm. What is the thick pipe is 44 cm. How much water will 7
circumference of a semicircle whose cm of the pipe hold?
diameter is equal to the side of the square? (a) 1078 cm cube
(a) 38.57 cm (b) 1792 cm cube
(b) 23.57 cm (c) 303 cm cube
(c) 42.46 cm (d) 792 cm cube
(d) 47.47 cm

Q13. A path of uniform width surrounds a Q18. The areas of three consecutive faces of
circular park. The difference of internal and a cuboid are 12 cm square, 20cm square and
external circumferences of this circular path 15 cm square, then the volume (in cm
is 132 m. Its width is (take π=22/7) square) of the cuboid is
(a) 22 m (a) 3600
(b) 20 m (b) 100
(c) 21 m (c) 80
(d) 24 m (d) 60

Q14. A person observed that he required 30 Q19. Each dimension in metres of a

s time to cross a circular ground along its rectangular solid is an integer less than 17,
diameter than to cover it once along the the volume of the solid is 3120 cubic metre.
boundary. If his speed was 30 m/min, then If the height of the solid is 16m and length
the radius of the circular ground is (take of the solid is 15 metre, what is the surface
π=22/7). area (in sq. metre) of the solid?
(a) 10.5 m (a) 1826
(b) 3.5 m (b) 1268
(c) 5.5 m (c) 1395
(d) 7.5 m (d) 1286
Q.20. The radius of a circular field is equal C. 20√2 cm²
to the side of a square field. If the difference D. 22√2 cm²
between the perimeter of the circular field
and that of the square field is 32m, what is Q25. Find the area of a circle whose
the perimeter of the square field? circumference is 44 cm.
(a) 84 m A. 154 cm²
(b) 95 m B. 150 cm²
(c) 56 m C. 145 cm²
(d) 28 m D. 140 cm²

Q21. Two goats are tethered to diagonally

opposite vertices of a field formed by
joining the mid-points of the adjacent sides
of another square field of side 20√2m. What Level -2
is the total grazing area of the two goats if
the length of the rope by which the goats Q26. The inner circumference of a circular
are tethered is 10√2 m? field is 704 m. A road 7 m wide is
A. 100π m² constructed on the outside. Find the area of
B. 50(√2-1)π m² the path.
C. 100π(3-2√2) m² A. 5082 m²
D. 200π(2-√2) m² B. 5060 m²
C. 5060.5 m²
Q22. Two equal maximum sized circular D. 5000 m²
plates are cut-off from a circular paper-sheet
of circumference 352 cm. The circumference Q. 27. A square park has each side of 100 m.
of each circular plate is. At each corner of the park, there is a flower
A. 176 cm bed in the form of a quadrant of radius 14
B. 180 cm m. Find the area of the remaining part of the
C. 165 cm park.
D. 150 cm A. 9184 m²
B. 9284 m²
Q23. Find the ratio of the diameter of the C. 9834 m²
circles inscribed in an equilateral triangle, D. 9384 m²
the diameter circumscribing that equilateral
triangle and the height of the same Q.28. An equilateral triangle of side 6 cm
equilateral triangle? has its corners cut off to form a regular
A. 1 : 2 : 1 hexagon. Area (in cm2) of this regular
B. 2 : 4 : 3 hexagon will be
C. 1 : 3 : 4 A. 3√3
D. 3 : 2 : 1 B. 3√6
C. 6√3
Q. 24. Find the area of a right-angled D. (5√3)/2
triangle if the radius of its circumcircle is 5
cm and the altitude drawn to the Q.29. A wire, when bent in the form of a
hypotenuse is 4 cm. square, encloses a region having area 121
A. 20 cm² cm2. If the same wire is bent into the form
B. 22 cm² of a circle, then the area of the circle is?
 A. 144 cm² A. 8 times of the previous volume
B. 180 cm² B. 3 times of the previous volume
C. 154 cm² C. 3√2 times of the previous volume
D. 176 cm² D. 6 times of the previous volume

Q.30. ABC is an equilateral triangle of side 2 Q.35. If h, c, v are respectively the height,
cm. With A, B, C as centers and radius 1 cm curved surface area and volume of a right
three arcs are drawn. The area of the region circular cone then the value of 3πvh³ – c²h²
within the triangle bounded by the three + 9v² is
arcs is? A. 2
A. 3(√3-π/2)cm² B. –1
B. (√3-3π/2)cm² C. 1
C. (π/2)cm² D. 0
D. (π/2-√3)cm²

Q.31. A rectangular block of metal has

dimensions 21 cm, 77 cm and 24 cm. The
block has been melted into a sphere. The Level -3
radius of the sphere is.
A. 21 cm Q.36. The total number of spherical bullets,
B. 7 cm each of diameter 5 decimeter, that can be
C. 14 cm made by utilizing the maximum of a
D. 28 cm rectangular block of lead with 11 metre
length, 10 metre breadth and 5 metre width
Q.32. The radius of cross-section of a solid is
cylindrical rod of iron is 50 cm. The cylinder A. 8800
is melted down and formed into 6 solid B. 8500
spherical balls of the same radius as that of C. 8400
the cylinder. The length of the rod (in D. 9000
metres) is
A. 0.8 Q.37. If a metallic cone of radius 30 cm and
B. 2 height 45 cm is melted and recast into
C. 3 metallic spheres of radius 5 cm, find the
D. 4 number of spheres.
A. 81
Q.33. Two right circular cones of equal B. 41
height of radii of base 3 cm and 4 cm are C. 80
melted together and made to a solid sphere D. 40
of radius 5 cm. the height of a cone is
A. 10 cm Q.38. A metallic sphere of radius 10.5 cm is
B. 20 cm melted and then recast into small cones
C. 30 cm each of radius 3.5 cm and height 3 cm. The
D. 40 cm number of cones thus formed is
A. 140
Q.34. The radius of the base and the height B. 132
of a right circular cone are doubled. The C. 112
volume of the cone will be D. 126
Q.39. A right circular cone is 3.6 cm height C. 1170π cm²
and radius of its base is 1.6 cm. It is melted D. 144π cm²
and recast into a right circular cone with
radius of its base as 1.2 cm. Then the height Q.44. A conical circus tent is to be made of
of the cone (in cm) is canvas. The height of the tent is 35 m and
A. 3.6 cm the radius of the base is 84 m. If π = 22/7,
B. 4.8 cm then the canvas required is:
C. 6.4 cm A. 24000 m²
D. 7.2 cm B. 24004 m²
C. 24014 m²
Q.40. If surface area and volume of sphere D. 24024 m²
are S and V respectively, then value of
S^3/V^2 is Q.45. Two circles of unit radii, are so drawn
A. 36 π units that the centre of each lies on the
B. 9 π units circumference of the other. The area of the
C. 18 π units region, common to both the circles, is:
D. 27 π units A. ((4π-3√3))/12
B. ((4π-6√3))/12
Q.41. Four circles having equal radii are C. ((4π-3√3))/6
drawn with centres at the four corners of a D. ((4π-6√3))/6
square. Each circle touches the other two
adjacent circle. If remaining area of the
square is 168 cm square, what is the size of Q.46. Water flows at the rate of 10 m per
the radius of the circle? minute from a cylindrical pipe 5 mm in
A. 1.4 cm diameter. A conical vessel whose diameter
B. 14 cm is 40 cm and depth 24 cm is filled. The time
C. 35 cm taken to fill the conical vessel is:
D. 21 cm A. 50 min
B. 50 min. 12 sec
Q.42. The radius of the base and the height C. 51 min. 12 sec
of a right circular cylinder are 3.5 cm and D. 51 min. 15 sec
7.5 cm respectively. The ratio of the total
surface area to the curved surface area of Q.47. A cone, a hemisphere and a cylinder
the cylinder will be stand on equal bases of radius R and have
A. 22 : 5 equal heights H. Their whole surfaces are in
B. 22 : 15 the ratio:
C. 22 : 7 A. (√3+1) : 3 : 4
D. 22 : 17 B. (√2+1) : 7 : 8
C. (√2+1) : 3 : 4
D. None of these
Q.43. From a solid sphere of radius 15 cm, a
right circular cylindrical hole of radius 9 cm Q.48. A cylinder is circumscribed about a
whose axis passing through the centre is hemisphere and a cone is inscribed in the
removed. The total surface area of the cylinder so as to have its vertex at the centre
remaining solid is: of one end and the other end as its base. The
A. 1188π cm² volumes of the cylinder, hemisphere and
B. 108π cm² the cone are respectively in the ratio of:
 A. 3 : √3 : 2
B. 3:2:1
C. 1:2:3
D. 2:3:1

Q.49. A large solid sphere of diameter 15 m

is melted and recast into several small
spheres of diameter 3 m. What is the
percentage increase in the surface area of
the smaller spheres over that of the large
sphere?
A. 200%
B. 400%
C. 500%
D. can’t be determined

Q.50. A hemispherical basin 150 cm in

diameter holds water one hundred and
twenty times as much a cylindrical tube. If
the height of the tube is 15 cm, then the
diameter of the tube (in cm) is:
A. 23
B. 24
C. 25
D. 26

1 B 11 A 21 A 31 A 41 B

2 A 12 A 22 A 32 D 42 B

3 D 13 C 23 B 33 B 43 C

4 C 14 B 24 A 34 A 44 D

5 D 15 D 25 A 35 D 45 C

6 A 16 B 26 A 36 C 46 C

7 B 17 D 27 D 37 A 47 C

8 D 18 D 28 C 38 D 48 B

9 B 19 D 29 C 39 C 49 B

10 B 20 C 30 C 40 A 50 C