Surface Area and Volume Self Practice Worksheet
Surface Area and Volume Self Practice Worksheet
2. Three metal cubes with edges 6 cm, 8cm, and 10cm respectively are melted together and formed
into a single cube. Find the volume and surface area of new cube.
3. A wall of length 25m, width 60cm and height 2m is to be constructed using bricks each of
dimensions 20cm by 12 cm by 8 cm. Find the number of bricks needed?
4. A field is 15m long and 12m broad. In one of its corners a pit of dimensions 8m long, 2.5m broad
and 2m deep is dug. The earth dug out is evenly spread on the remaining field. Find out by how much
the level of the field is raised.
5. The rainfall on a certain day was 6 cm. How many liters of water fell on 3 hectares of a field on that
day?
6. The CSA of cylinder is 132cm2. Find the height of the cylinder if its radius is 0.35cm.
7. The circumference of the base of the cylinder is 88cm and its height is 15cm. Find its CSA and TSA.
8. The ratio between the curved surface area and total surface area of a right circular cylinder is 1 : 2.
Find the ratio between the height and radius of the cylinder.
9. A road roller takes 750 complete revolutions to move once over to level a road. Find the area of the
road if the diameter of the road roller is 84cm and length is 1m.
10. The sum of the radius and height of a cylinder is 42 cm, and its total surface area is 1848 cm².
Find the height, volume of the cylinder, and the circumference of its base.
11. A hollow cylinder (with both top and bottom faces closed) has outer radius, R=10 cm, thickness of
the walls of the cylinder is 3cm and height, h=15cm.
Using π=3.14, find: (i) The volume of the material forming the cylinder.
(ii)The curved surface area, defined as the sum of the outer and inner lateral surfaces.
(iii)The total surface area, including the curved surfaces plus the areas of the top and bottom annular
faces.
12. If the radii of two circular cylinders are in the ratio 3 : 4 and their heights are in the ratio 6 : 5. Find
the ratio of their curved surfaces.
13. A cylindrical container is made up of a tin sheet. The height of the container is 1m and diameter is
70 cm. If the container is open at the top and tin sheet costs ₹300 per m2, find the cost of the tin sheet
for making the container.
14. If the radius of the base of a right circular cylinder is halved keeping the height the same find the
ratio of the volume of the reduced cylinder to that of the original cylinder.
15. A solid cylinder has a total surface area of 462 cm2. Its curved surface area is one-third of its total
surface area. Find the height of the cylinder.
16. Find the height of a right circular cylinder whose diameter is 14cm, and total surface area is
968cm2.
17. A rectangular sheet of paper 44cm by 20cm is rolled along its length and a cylinder is formed. Find
the CSA of cylinder. If the cost of the sheet for 1cm2 is ₹ 3.5. Find the cost of the rectangular sheet.
18. A rectangular sheet of paper 30 cm by 18 cm can be transformed into a surface of a right circular
cylinder in two ways, i.e., either by rolling the paper along its length or by rolling the paper along its
breadth. Find the ratio of the TSA of the two cylinders thus formed.
19. Find the height of the cylinder whose volume is 2.31 m3 and diameter of the base is 140cm.
20. The area of cross-section of a pipe is 5.4cm2 and water is pumped out of it at the rate of 27kmph.
Find in litres the volume of water which flows out of the pipe in one minute.
21. An electric geyser is hollow cylindrical in shape, having a outer diameter of 74cm and height 1.4m.
If the thickness of its walls is 2cm , calculate (i) the volume of the material required
(ii) its capacity