A square of side 5 centimetres, and four isosceles triangles of base 5 centimetres and height 8 centimetres, are to be put together to make a square pyramid. How many square centimeters of paper is needed?
Given: side of a square = 5cm
There are 4 isosceles triangle
Base (b) = 5cm
Height (h) = 8cm
Area of a square base (A) = side × side
= 5 × 5
Area of a square base (A) = 25 cm2
Area of one isosceles triangle
Area of one isosceles triangle = 20cm2
Area of 4 isosceles triangle = 4 × 20 = 80cm2
Total surface area = 25 + 80 = 105cm2
A toy is in the shape of a square pyramid of base edge 16 centimetres and slant height 10 centimetres. What is the total cost of painting 500 such toys, a 80 rupees per square metre?
Given: side of a square = 16cm
Slant Height (l) = 10 cm
We know that,
Surface area of a pyramid
Where, p = perimeter of the base
l = slant height
A = area of the base
Area of a square base (A) = side × side
= 16 × 16
Area of a square base (A) = 256 cm2
Perimeter of a square base (p) = 4 × side
= 4 × 16
Perimeter of a square base (p) = 64 cm
Since, Surface area of a pyramid
⇒ Surface area of a pyramid
Total surface area of pyramid shaped toys = 500 × 576
= 288000cm2
= 28.8m2
Cost of 1m2 = 80Rs.
Cost of 28.8m2 = 28.8 × 80 = 2304 Rs.
The lateral faces of a square pyramid are equilateral triangles and the length of a base edge is 30 centimetres. What is its surface area?
Given lateral faces of square pyramid is equilateral triangle
side = 30cm
Since it is a equilateral triangle
lateral Base (b) = 30 cm
Area of a square base (A) = side × side
= 30 × 30
Area of a square base (A) = 900 cm2
Area of an equilateral triangle = 225√3 cm2
Area of an 4 equilateral triangle = 4× 225√3 = 900√3 cm2
Total surface area = 900 + 900√3 = 900(1 + √3)cm2
The perimeter of the base of square pyramid is 40 centimetres and the total length of all its edges is 92 centimetres. Calculate its surface area.
Let b be the base edge
And l be the lateral edge
Then we can write:
4b + 4l = 92 cm …..(1)
But 4b = 40 cm.
So we get
Substituting this value of b in (1) we get:
40 + 4l = 92
⇒ 4l = 52
⇒ l = 13cm
Altitude of one isosceles triangle = √(132 – 52)
= √(169 – 25)
= √144 = 12cm
Now, we can calculate the total surface area
Base area = 10 × 10 = 100cm2
Area of one isosceles triangle
Area of one isosceles triangle = 60cm2
Area of 4 isosceles triangle = 4 × 60 = 240cm2
Total surface area = 100 + 240 = 340cm2
Can we make a square pyramid with the lateral surface area equal to the base area?
Consider pyramid as shown in figure given along.
Lateral surface are of pyramid is given by formula
As the base is given to be square, So l=w=x,
And base area = x2
So for base area to be equal to LSA,
Or, h=0
Thus, it is not possible to have a pyramid with lateral surface area equal to base area.
Using a square and four triangles with dimensions as specified in the picture, a pyramid is made.
What is the height of this pyramid?
What if the square and triangles are like this?
From the first figure we get.
Slant Height LG = 18cm
Base BC = 24cm
Height of pyramid
= √ (324 – 122)
= √ (324 – 144)
Height AC = √180 cm = 6√5 cm
From the second diagram we get,
LH = Height of pyramid
HG = Half of a diagonal
BC = base edge = 24cm
LG = lateral edge = 30cm
BG = Full diagonal = √(242+ 242) = 24√2 cm
By Pythagoras theorem
HL = √(LG2 – HG2)
= √(302 – (12√2)2)
= √(900 – 288)
= √612 cm
A square pyramid of base edge 10 centimetres and height 12 centimetres is to be made of paper. What should be the dimension of the triangles?
Base edge (b) = 10cm
Height (h) = 12cm
= √(144 + 52)
= √(144 + 25)
Slant Height = √169 = 13cm
Prove that in any square pyramid, the squares of the height, slant height and lateral edge are in arithmetic sequence.
In the diagram,
e = lateral edge
s = slant height
h = height of pyramid
l = side of square base
With the help of diagram given below we get that, diagonal of square base is of length l√2
From the figures and Pythagoras theorem,
(1)
Also,
(2)
By comparing (1) and (2) we get that,
h2, s2 and e2 are in AP with,
First term, a= h2
Common difference, d=
Hence, proved.
A square pyramid is to be made with the triangle shown here as a lateral face. What would be its height? What if the base edge is 40 centimetres instead of 30 centimetres?
LH = Height of pyramid
HG = Half of a diagonal
BC = base edge = 30cm
LG = lateral edge = 25cm
BG = Full diagonal = √(302+ 302) = 30√2 cm
By Pythagoras theorem
HL = √(LG2 + HG2)
= √(252 + (15√2)2)
= √(625 + 450)
= √1075 cm
LH = Height of pyramid
HG = Half of a diagonal
BC = base edge = 40cm
LG = lateral edge = 25cm
BG = Full diagonal = √(402+ 402) = 40√2 cm
By Pythagoras theorem
HL = √(LG2 + HG2)
= √(252 + (20√2)2)
= √(625 + 800)
= √1425 cm
What is the volume of a square pyramid of base edge 10 centimetres and slant height 15 centimetres?
Given: base edge (b) = 10cm
Slant height (l) = 15cm
= √(225 – 52)
= √(225 – 25)
Height = √200 = 10√2 cm
Base area = (base edge)2
= (10)2
Base area = 100cm2
We know that,
Two square pyramids have the same volume. The base edge of one is half that of the other. How many times the height of the second pyramid is the height of the first?
Let the volume of first pyramid be V1
Let the base edge of first pyramid be a1
Let the height of first pyramid be h1
Let the volume of second pyramid be V2
Let the area of first pyramid be a2
Let the height of first pyramid be h2
We know that,
Volume of a pyramid
Volume of a first pyramid
Volume of a second pyramid
Given: V1 = V2
….(1)
Given:
Substitute in (1)
⇒ h2 = 4h1
The base edges of two square pyramids are in the ratio 1 : 2 and their heights in the ratio 1 : 3. The volume of the first is 180 cubic centimeters. What is the volume of the second?
Let the volume of first pyramid be V1
Let the base edge of first pyramid be a1
Let the height of first pyramid be h1
Let the volume of second pyramid be V2
Let the area of first pyramid be a2
Let the height of first pyramid be h2
We know that,
Volume of a pyramid
Volume of a first pyramid …..(1)
Volume of a second pyramid …(2)
Given:
⇒ a2 = 2a1 …(a)
Given:
⇒ h2 = 3h1 …(b)
Consider, Volume of a second pyramid
(from a and b)
⇒ V2 = 12×V1
⇒ V2 = 12×180 = 2160cm3
All edges of a square pyramid are 18 centimetres. What is its volume?
LH = Height of pyramid
HG = Half of a diagonal
BC = base edge = 18cm
LG = lateral edge = 18cm
BG = Full diagonal = √(182+ 182) = 18√2 cm
By Pythagoras theorem
HL = √(LG2 – HG2)
= √(182 – (9√2)2)
= √(324 – 162)
= √162 cm
We know that,
Volume of a pyramid
Volume of a pyramid
The slant height of a square pyramid is 25 centimetres and its surface area is 896 square centimetres. What is its volume?
Let the base edge be (2a) cm
Then area of one isosceles triangle
.
Area of four isosceles triangles = 4×25a = 100a cm2.
Base area = (2a)2 = 4a2 cm2.
Total surface area = (100a + 4a2)cm2
Given total surface area = 896
∴ 100a + 4a2 = 896
⇒ a2 + 25a – 224 = 0
Using,
We get,
⇒ a = 7 or – 32
Since, base edge cannot be negative
∴ a = 7 cm
LG = Slant height = 25cm
HG = Half of base = 7cm
Apply Pythagoras theorem
LH = √(252 – 72)
= √(625 – 49)
= √576 = 24cm
Volume of a pyramid
Volume of a pyramid
All edges of a square pyramid are of the same length and its height is 12 centimetres. What is its volume?
Let all the edges of the square prism be 'a'.
The lateral edge BC is also 'a'.
HL = height of pyramid
HG = half of a diagonal of the base
LG = Lateral edge = a Cm
Full diagonal BG = √(a2 + a2) = a√2 cm
Half diagonal
Applying Pythagoras theorem, we get:
LH = √(LG2 – HG2)
Given: LH = 12cm
Thus
⇒ a = 12√2 cm
Volume of a pyramid
Volume of a pyramid
What is the surface area of a square pyramid of base perimeter 64 centimetres and volume 1280 cubic centimetres?
Base perimeter is given as 64 cm.
So base edge
Volume is given as 1280 cm3.
We know that,
⇒ h = 15 cm
Let height of pyramid (h) = 15 cm
half of base edge = 8 cm
slant height = l
Applying Pythagoras theorem, we get:
l = √(152 + 82)
= √(225 + 64)
= √289
= 17 cm
Then area of one isosceles triangle
Area of four isosceles triangles = 4×136 = 544 cm2
Base area = 162 = 256 cm2.
Total surface area = (544 + 256) = 800 cm2
What are the radius of the base and slant height of a cone made by rolling up a sector of central angle 60° cut out from a circle of radius 10 centimetres?
Given that radius of the circle is 10 cm.
This will be same as the radius of the sector, rs = 10
This rs will be the slant height l of the cone.
Slant height l = 10 cm
Central angle θ = 60°
the length of arc will be
Thus, the length of arc will be .
But this is same as the circumference of the base of the cone
So if rb is the radius of the base of the cone
What is the central angle of the sector to be used to make a cone of base radius 10 centimetres and slant height 25 centimetres?
Given that slant height of the cone should be 25 cm.
So radius of the sector rs = 25 cm
To find: Central angle θ
Radius of the base rb = 10 cm
So circumference of the base = 2πrb = 2π×10 = 20π cm ..(1)
This circumference is equal to the length of the arc
The length of arc will be
Thus, the length of arc will be . …(2)
Equating the results in (1) and (2):
⇒ θ = 144°
What is the ratio of the base – radius and slant height of a cone made by rolling up a semicircle?
Here, The sector is a semicircle
Let rs be the radius of the sector.
Then slant height of the cone will be rs.
Central angle θ of a semi circle = 180°
The arc length of a semicircle is 'half the circumference of the full circle'
The 'circumference of the full circle' is 2πrs.
So half of it is πrs.
This is same as the circumference of the base of the cone
So if rb is the radius of the base of the cone,
2πrb = πrs
But rs is the slant height.
What is the area of the curved surface of a cone of base radius 12 centimetres and slant height 25 centimetres?
Given: base radius rb = 12cm
Slant height l = 25cm
We know that, Curved surface area of cone = πrbl
Where rb = base radius and l = slant height
Curved surface area of cone = π× 25× 12 = 300π cm2
What is the surface area of a cone of base diameter 30 centimetres and height 40 centimetres?
height of the cone = 40 cm
Base diameter = 30cm
Base radius
l = slant height
Applying Pythagoras theorem, we get:
l = √(h2 + rb2)
= √(402 + 152)
= √(1600 + 225) = √1825 cm
We know that, Curved surface area of cone = πrbl
Where rb = base radius and l = slant height
Curved surface area of cone = π× 15× √18255 = 640.8π cm2
Surface area of base = πrb2 = π × 152 = 225π cm2.
Total surface area = (640.8 + 225)π = 865.8π cm2
A conical fire work is of base diameter 10 centimetres and height 12 centimetres. 10000 such fireworks are to be wrapped in colour paper. The price of the colour paper is 2 rupees per square metre. What is the total cost?
height of the cone (h) = 12 cm
Diameter of a cone = 10cm
Base radius
l = slant height
Applying Pythagoras theorem, we get:
l = √(h2 + rb2)
= √(122 + 52)
= √(144 + 25) = √169 cm = 13cm
We know that, Curved surface area of cone = πrbl
Where rb = base radius and l = slant height
Curved surface area of cone = π× 5× 13 = 65π cm2
Surface area of base = πrb2 = π × 52 = 25π cm2.
Total surface area = (65 + 25)π = 90π cm2 = 90× 3.14 = 282.6cm2
Surface area of 10000 fire works = 282.6 × 10000 = 2826000 cm2.
So cost of colour paper = 282.6 × 2 = Rs 565.20
Prove that for a cone made by rolling up a semicircle, the area of the curved surface is twice the base area.
Let the radius of the sector be rs
Central angle θ is 180° (∵ the sector is a semicircle)
Let the radius of the base be rb
So circumference of the base = 2πrb …(1)
This circumference is equal to the length of the arc
Since, the arc length of a semicircle is 'half the circumference of the
full circle'
The 'circumference of the full circle' is 2πrs.
So half of it is πrs. …(2)
Equating the results in (1) and (2):
2πrb = πrs
⇒ 2rb = rs. ..(3)
Find the area of the sector
The area of the sector is area of the semicircle which is
Let us substitute for rs using the result in (3). We get:
= 2πrb2
Area of the sector is same as the area of curved surface.
Area of the curved surface of the cone = 2πrb2 …(4)
To find the base area.
radius of the base of the cone = rb.
So area of the base of the cone = πrb2. …(5)
Comparing the results in (4) and (5), we get:
Area of the curved surface of the cone = Twice the base area
The base radius and height of a cylindrical block of wood are 15 centimetres and 40 centimetres. What is the volume of the largest cone that can be carved out of this?
Base radius = 15cm
Height of cylindrical block = 40cm
Volume of the cone =
= 5 × 15 × 40 π
= 3000π cm3
The base radius and height of a solid metal cylinder are 12 centimetres and 20 centimetres. By melting it and recasting, how many cones of base radius 4 centimetres and height 5 centimetres can be made?
For the cylinder:
Radius of base = 12 cm
Height = 20 cm
Volume of the cone =
= 4 × 12 × 20 π
= 2880π cm3
For the cone:
Radius of base = rb = 4 cm
Height = h = 5 cm
= 108
A sector of central angle 216° is cut out from a circle of radius 25 centimetres and is rolled up into a cone. What are the base radius and height of the cone? What is its volume?
Given that radius of the circle is 25 cm.
This will be same as the radius of the sector rs = 25 cm
This rs will be the slant height of the cone
Slant height = 25 cm
Central angle θ = 216°
The length of arc will be
Thus, the length of arc will be .
But this is same as the circumference of the base of the cone
So if rb is the radius of the base of the cone
⇒ 2πrb = 30π
⇒ rb = 30cm
Also,
height of the cone = h
base radius = rb = 15 cm
slant height = l = 25 cm
Applying Pythagoras theorem, we get:
h = √(l2 – rb2)
= √(252 – 152)
= √(625 – 225) = √400 = 20 cm
= 1500π cm3
The base radii of two cones are in the ratio 3 : 5 and their heights are in the ratio 2 : 3. What is the ratio of their volumes?
Given that
Also given that
We know that, Volume of the cone =
The cones have the same volume and their base radii are in the ratio 4 : 5. What is the ratio of their heights?
Given that .
Also given that V1 = V2
We know that, Volume of the cone =
⇒
⇒
⇒
⇒
⇒
The surface area of a solid sphere is 120 square centimetres. If it is cut into two halves, what would be the surface area of each hemisphere?
Let r cm be the radius of the total sphere.
Then it's surface area would be 4πr2 cm2
This surface area is given as 120 cm2.
we can equate the two:
= 120
⇒ = 30
…..(1)
Curved surface area of a hemisphere
Base area =
So total surface area of a hemisphere = 2 + = 3
Substitute value from (1)
So total surface area of each hemisphere
The volume of two spheres are in the ratio 27 : 64. What is the ratio of their radii? And the ratio of their surface areas?
Let the volume and radius of the first sphere be V1 and r1
Respectively
Let the volume and radius of the second sphere be V2 and r2
Respective
Then volume of first sphere =
volume of second sphere
Given that
Let S1 and S2 be the surface areas. Then we get:
The base radius and length of a metal cylinder are 4 centimetres and 10 centimetres. If it is melted and recast into spheres of radius 2 centimetres, how many spheres can be made?
Total volume available for melting = Volume of the cylinder
=
= π×42×10
= 160π cm3
Volume of one .
Number of spheres = 15
a metal sphere of radius 12 centimetres is melted and recast into 27 small spheres. What is the radius of each sphere?
Total volume available for melting = Volume of the sphere
=
=
= 2304π cm3
Let 'r' be the radius of one small sphere.
Then volume of one small sphere = =
But number of spheres is given as 27.
So we can write:
R = 4cm
Form a solid sphere of radius 10 centimetres, a cone of height 16 centimetres is carved out. What fraction of the volume of the sphere is the volume of the cone?
1. Consider the red sphere in fig (a) below.
• Two ellipses are drawn inside it: A dotted ellipse and a dashed ellipse
• The dashed ellipse represents a circle whose centre is same as the centre of the sphere
♦ Also this circle is horizontal
• So this circle divides the sphere into an upper hemisphere and a lower hemisphere
• This circle is taken as the base of the cone in fig.b.
• We can see that, the cone fits perfectly in the upper hemisphere.
• This is shown more clearly in fig.c
2. From fig.c we can see that, the height of the cone will be the height of the hemisphere, which is 10 cm
• But cone given in the question has a height of 16 cm.
• So the given cone does not fit inside the upper hemisphere alone.
♦ It will occupy some portion of the lower hemisphere also
• This is shown in fig (b) below. In that fig. we can see that the, base of the new cone is below the dashed ellipse
3. In fig (c), the measurements are given
• One half of the cone is represented by the right triangle ABC
• The distance of the apex C from the centre O will be the radius of the sphere, which is 10 cm
• So the remaining distance OA will be (16 – 10) = 6 cm
• Distance OB will also be the radius 10 cm
• Applying Pythagoras theorem to the right triangle OAB, we get:
–
⟹ = 102 – 62
⟹ = 100 – 36
⟹ = 64
⟹ AB = 8 cm
4. Thus we have:
• Height of the cone, h = 16 cm
• Radius of the cone, rc = 8 cm
• So Volume,
• Volume of sphere,
5. Taking ratios, we get:
• So 'volume of the cone' is of the 'volume of the sphere'
The picture shows the dimensions of a petrol tank.
How many litres of petrol can it hold?
The tank has two hemispherical parts and one cylindrical part
The yellow dashed line indicates the axis of the tank
From the fig., it is clear that radius of the hemisphere is 1 m.
So it's volume
Thus volume of two hemispheres
Height of a hemisphere will be equal to it's radius.
So length of the cylindrical part = [6 – (2×1)] = 4 m
Volume of cylinder = Vc = πr2h = π×12×4 = 4π m3
Thus total volume .
We know that 1 liter is the volume of a cube of edge 10 cm
Now, 16746666.67 cm3.
(∵ 1 m = 100 cm)
Thus the no. of liters = 16746666.67⁄1000 = 16746.67 liters
A solid sphere is cut into two hemispheres. From one, a square pyramid and from the other a cone. each of maximum possible size are carved out. What is the ratio of their volumes?
1. Consider the red hemisphere in fig (a) below.
• A dotted ellipse and a dashed curve are drawn inside it
• The dashed ellipse represents the base of the hemisphere
• For maximum possible volume, this base is taken as the base of the cone in fig. (b)
• We can see that, the cone fits perfectly in the hemisphere.
• This is shown more clearly in (c)
2. From fig.c, we have:
• Height of the cone, = r
• Radius of the cone, = r
• So Volume,
3. Consider the red hemisphere in fig (a) below. It is the same hemisphere of radius r, that we saw for the cone above
• A square is drawn in the base of the hemisphere
• This square is the base of the pyramid
4. For maximum possible volume, the diagonal of the square must be equal to the diameter of the circle
• So in fig. c, we can write:
OP = OQ = half of diameter = radius = r
5. OPQ is a right triangle. We can apply Pythagoras theorem
• Then base edge = PQ = = = = r
6. So volume of the pyramid, =
7. Now we can take the ratio:
• Thus we get:
: = 2 : π