Mensuration questions

1. What is the area of an equilateral triangle of side 16 cm?

2. If the sides of a triangle are 26 cm, 24 cm and 10 cm, what is its area?
a) 120 cm2
b) 130 cm2
c) 315 cm2
d) 312 cm2

3. The perimeter of a triangle is 28 cm and the inradius of the triangle is 2.5 cm. What is the area of the
triangle?
a) 35 cm2
b) 25 cm2
c) 42 cm2
d) 70 cm2

4. Find the area of trapezium whose parallel sides are 20 cm and 18 cm long, and the distance between
them is 15 cm.
a) 315 cm2
b) 275 cm2
c) 225 cm2
d) 285 cm2

5. Find the area of a parallelogram with base 24 cm and height 16 cm.

6. If area of circle is equal to volume of sphere with equal radii, find the radius.

a) 1. √3
b) 2. √3/2
c) 3. 1 / 2
d) 4. 3/4

7. If the ratio of radius of two spheres is 4:7, the ratio of their volume is

a) 4: 7
b) 64: 343
 c) 49: 16
d) 16: 49

8.Find the height of a cuboid whose volume is 275 cm3 and base area is 25 cm2.

a) 9
b) 13
c) 11
d) 4

9.If the volume of two cubes is in the ratio 27: 1, the ratio of their edge is?
a) 3: 1
b) 27: 1
c) 1: 3
d) 1: 27
10.If diagonal of a cube is √12 cm, then its volume in cubic cm is?
a) 12
b) 8
c) 24
d) ∛2
11.The diameter (in meter) of a sphere whose volume is 268 (4/21) m3 is
a) 6
b) 12
c) 8
d) 24
12. The sector of a circle has radius of 21 cm and central angle 135°. Find its perimeter?
a) 93.5 cm
b) 92.5 cm
c) 94.5 cm
d) 91.5 cm
13. Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 25 cm and one of the diagonals is 30 cm?
a. 360 sq.m
b. 480 sq.m
c. 720 sq.m
d. 600 sq.cm

14. The lateral surface area of a cylinder is 1056 cm square and its height is 16 cm. Find its volume.

a) 4545 cm cube
b) 4455 cm cube
c) 5444 cm cube
d) 5644 cm cube
15. The slant height of a right circular cone is 13 m and its height is 5 m. Find area of the curved surface.
 a) 490.28 m2
b) 288.28 m2
c) 450 m2
d) 200 m2

16. The surface area of a sphere is 616cm2. Find its radius.

a) 8 cm
b) 10 cm
c) 9 cm
d) 7 cm
17. . Find the area of an isosceles triangle whose sides are 10 cm, 6 cm and 6 cm.

a) 25√11 sq. cm.

18. What is the radius of a circle if its circumference is numerically equal to four times its area?

a) 1/ 2
b) 3
c) 1
d) 4

19. A cube of side one meter length is cut into small cubes of side 10 cm each. How many such small
cubes can be obtained?
a) 110
b) 10
c) 1000
d) 100

20. The radius of a wheel is 22.4 cm. What is the distance covered by the wheel in making 500
resolutions.
a) 352 m
b) 252 m
c) 808 m
d) 704 m

21. The volumes of two cones are in the ratio 1: 10 and the radii of the cones are in the ratio of 1 : 2.
What is the length of the wire?
a) 1 5
b) 3: 5
c) 2: 5
d) 4:5
22. A metallic sphere of radius 12 cm is melted and drawn into a wire, whose radius of cross section is
16 cm. What is the length of the wire?
a) 18 cm
b) 180 cm
c) 9 cm
d) 90 cm

23. The ratio of the volumes of two cubes is 729: 1331. What is the ratio of their total surface areas?
a) 729: 1331
b) 27: 121
c) 9: 11
d) 81: 121

24. A 5 cm cube is cut into as many 1 cm cubes as possible. What is the ratio of the surface area of the
original cube to that of the sum of the surface areas of all the smaller cubes?

a) 2:3
b) 1:5
c) 2:7
d) 1:8

25. Find the length of the square if the area is 8 sq.cm.?

a) 2cm
b) 2√2m
c) 4m
d) 2√2cm

26. A pizza of area 100 sq. cm. needs to be shared among 6 people. How many degrees a pizza
piece(sector) of one person must be?

a) 10°
b) 56°
c) 60°
d) 66°

27. what is the length of the diagonal if the area of the cube is 18 sq.m.?

a) 6m
b) 9m
c) 3m
d) 6√2 m

28. If the radius of a circle increases by 50%, then what is the increased percentage of the area of the
circle?

a) 25%
b) 100%
c) 125%
 d) 110%

29. What is the height of the cylindrical box if the circumference of the base is 44 sq.m. and the volume
is 1540 cubic meters.

a) 100m
b) 10m
c) 11m
d) 110m

30. What is the surface area of hemisphere if the radius is 14cm.

a) 1858 sq.cm.
b) 1848 sq.cm.
c) 1948 sq.cm
d) 1850 sq.cm.

31. Ratio of Volumes of cube and Sphere is 6/π. Find the ratio of side of cube and radius of sphere.
a) 2:1
b) 3:1
c) 4:1
d) 5:1
32. Difference between the circumferences of two circles is 132 cm and radius of the smaller circle is 14
cm. Find the radius of the larger circle?
a) 14 cm
b) 21 cm
c) 30 cm
d) 7cm
33.Length of a rectangle is 53 m, while its breath is 28 m. Cost of covering it with grass bed is Rs.27 per
sq meter. Find total expenditure?

a) Rs. 40,068
b) Rs. 40,048
c) Rs. 40,058
d) Rs. 40,088

34. The area of a square is equal to five times the area of a rectangle of dimensions 125 cm x 64
cm. What is the perimeter of the square?

a) 1000 cm
b) 800 cm
c) 600 cm
 d) 400 cm
35. What will be the cost of building a fence around a square plot with area equal to 289 sq ft, if the
price per foot of building the fence is Rs. 58?

a) Rs. 4176
b) Rs. 3944
c) Rs. 3828
d) Cannot be determined

36. Ratio of Volumes of cube and Sphere is 6/π. Find the ratio of side of cube and radius of sphere.

a) 2: 1
b) 3: 1
c) 4: 1
d) 1: 2
37. A lawn, 40 m long and 35 m wide, is surrounded by a path 2 m wide. How many cubic metres of
gravel are required to cover the path to a depth of 10 cm?

a) 11.8
b) 31.6
c) 62
d) 13.6
38.Find the length of the longest pole that can be placed in a room 12 m long, 8m broad and 9 m high.

a) 16 m
b) 17 m
c) 18 m
d) 19m

39. The volume of a wall, 5 times as high as it is broad and 8 times as long as it is high, is 12.8 cu. meters.
Find the breadth of the wall.

a) 0.04m
b) 0.4m
c) 4m
d) 40m

40. The length of a rectangular plot is thrice its breadth. If the area of the rectangular plot is 867 sq m,
then what is the breadth of the rectangular plot?
a) 8.5 m
b) 17 m
c) 51 m
d) 34 m
41. Find the number of bricks, each measuring 24 cm×12 cm × 8 cm, required to construct a wall 24 m
long, 8m high and 60 cm thick if 10% of the wall is filled with mortar?

a) 40
b) 4000
c) 40000
d) 400000

42. The area of the base of a rectangular tank is 6500 cm 2 and the volume of water contained in it is 2.6
cubic meters. The depth of water in the tank is?

a) 3.5cm
b) 4cm
c) 6cm
d) 5cm

43. In a shower, 5 cm of rain falls. The volume of water that falls on 1.5 hectares of the ground is

a) 75 cubic m
b) 750 cubic m
c) 7500 cubic m
d) 75000 cubic m

44. The ratio of length and breadth of rectangle is 5:2 respectively. The respective ratio of its perimeter
and area is 1:3 (irrespective of the unit). What is the length of the rectangle?

a) 27 units
b) 32 units
c) 21 units
d) None of these

45. The ratio of the length and the breadth of a rectangle is 4:3 and the area of the rectangle is 6912 sq
cm. Find the ratio of the breadth and the area of the rectangle?

a) 1:96
b) 1:48
c) 1:68
d) 1:84

46. The area of a rectangle is four times of a square. The length of the rectangle is 80 cm and the
breadth of the rectangle is 3 times that of the side of the square. What is the side of the square?
a) 40 cm
b) 30 cm
c) 45 cm
d) 60 cm
47. Two small circular parks of diameters 6 m and 8 m are to be replaced by a bigger circular park. What
would be the radius of this new park, in meter, if the new park occupies the same space as the two small
parks (in meter)?

a) 5
b) 10
c) 15
d) 20
48. A triangle inscribed in a circle with shorter sides is 3 and 4 units long. If the longer side is the
diameter, find the length of the diameter.
(a) 5
(b) 20
(c) 30
(d) 40
49. The rainwater from a flat roof 1.6 m long and 10 m wide is collected in a tank whose internal
measurements are 2 m long, 2.4 m wide and 3 m deep. Before it started raining it was half-full and after
the rain it was full. Find the height of rainfall.
a) 1.8 cm
b) 0.9 cm
c) 9 cm
d) 4.5 cm
50. Water is being pumped out through a circular pipe whose internal diameter is 7 cm. If the flow of
water is 12 cm per second. How many litres of water is being pumped out in one hour?
a) 1663.2 litre
b) 1500 litre
c) 1747.6 litre
d) 2000 litre