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Volume of a Cylinder

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1. Below is a cylinder with radius 2cm and height 5cm.

Calculate the volume of the cylinder.

.........................cm³
(3)

2. Shown below is a cylinder.

Calculate the volume.

Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

......................... cm³
(3)
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3. A can of baked beans is shown below.

Calculate the volume of the can.

......................... cm³
(3)

4. Below is a cylinder with diameter 8cm and height 10cm.

Find the volume of the cylinder.

Give your answer in terms of π

......................... cm³
(3)
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5. Shown below is a cylinder with diameter 5cm and height 17cm.

Calculate the volume of the cylinder.

Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

......................... cm³
(3)

6.

Calculate the volume of the cylinder.

Give your answer in terms of π
State the units of your answer.

...............................
(4)
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7. Carl is filling flowerpots with soil.

Each flowerpot is a cylinder with radius 7cm and height 20cm.

Carl has 50 litres of soil.

How many flowerpots can be filled?

.........................
(4)

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8. A cylinder has radius 2cm.

The volume of the cylinder is 100cm³

Calculate the height of the cylinder.

......................... cm
(3)

9. The cylinder below has a diameter of 6cm

The volume of the cylinder is 180π cm³

Work out the length of the cylinder.

......................... cm
(3)
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10. A cylinder has a height of 15cm and a volume of 500cm³
Calculate the radius of the cylinder.

......................... cm
(3)

11. Shown below is a cylindrical water tank.

The height of the tank is 4 metres.

The volume of the tank is 6.4m³

Find the diameter of the water tank.

......................... m
(3)
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12. Shown below is a paddling pool with radius 1.3m and depth 40cm

Felix is filling the padding pool at a rate of 15 litres a minute.

Work out how long it takes to fill the paddling pool.

Give your answer to the nearest minute.

......................... minutes
(4)

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13. Here is the front elevation of a cylinder on a centimetre square grid.

The volume of the cylinder is 12π cm³

Draw the side elevation of the cylinder.

(4)

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14.

A cylinder has diameter 12cm and height 14cm.

A cube has side length y cm.
The cylinder and cube has the same volume.

Find y.

......................... cm
(4)

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15.

Shown above is a prism that is 1m long.

The cross-section of the prism is a semi-circle above a rectangle.

Calculate the volume of the prism.

Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

......................... cm³
(4)

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16.

A cuboid is full of liquid.

Some of the liquid is poured from the cuboid into the cylinder.
The height, h, of the liquid in both containers is the same.

Work out h.

......................... cm
(4)

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17.

The volume of the cuboid and the cylinder are equal.

Find h in terms of x.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

......................... cm
(3)

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