Surface Area of a Sphere, Hemi-Sphere and Spherical Shell

Author:R. D. Sharma
9th CBSE
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Important Questions on Surface Area of a Sphere, Hemi-Sphere and Spherical Shell

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The front compound wall of a house is decorated by wooden spheres of diameter 21 cm placed on small supports as shown in Fig. Eight such spheres are used for this purpose, and are to be painted silver. Each support is a cylinder of radius 1.5 cm and height 7 cm and is to be painted black. Find the cost of paint required if silver paint costs 25 paise per cm2 and black paint costs 5 paise per cm2.

 

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A storage tank consists of a circular cylinder with a hemisphere adjoined on either end. If the external diameter of the cylinder be 1.4 m and its length be 8 m, find the cost of painting it on the outside at the rate of  10 per m2.

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The dome of a building is in the form of a hemisphere. Its radius is 63 dm. Find the cost of painting it at the rate of  2 per sq.m.

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A hemispherical bowl made of brass has inner diameter 10.5 cm. Find the cost of tin-plating it on the inside at the rate of  4 per 100 cm2.

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A wooden toy is in the form of cone surrmounted on a hemisphere. The diameter of the base of the cone is 16 cm and its height is 15 cm. Find the cost of painting the toy at Rs.7 per 100 cm2.

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A hemi-spherical dome of a building needs to be painted. If the circumference of the base of the dome is 17.6 m, find the cost of painting it, given the cost of painting is  5 per 100 cm2.

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The diameter of the moon is approximately one fourth of the diameter of the earth. Find the ratio of their surfcae areas.

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If a solid sphere of radius 10 cm is moulded into 8 spherical solid balls of equal radius, then the surface area of each ball is kπ cm2, then find the value of k.

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If the ratio of volumes of two spheres is 1:8 then the ratio of their surface areas is

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The ratio of the total surface area of a sphere and a hemisphere of same radius is

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The total surface area of a hemisphere of radius r is

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A cylinder of same height and radius is placed on the top of a hemisphere. Find the curved surface area of the shape if the length of the shape be 7 cm

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Assuming the earth to be a sphere of radius 6370 km, how many square kilometers is area of the land, if three-fourth of the earth's surface is covered by water?

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The surface area of a sphere is 5544 cm2, find its diameter.( in cm).

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Find the total surface area of a hemisphere and a solid hemisphere each of radius 10 cm ( Use π=3.14).

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 Find the surface area of a sphere of a diameter 3.5 cm( in cm2).
 

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Find the surface area of a sphere of a diameter 21 cm.( in cm2).
 

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Find the surface area of a sphere of diameter 14 cm.( in cm2).

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 Find the surface area of a sphere of whose radius is 14 cm.(in cm2).

 

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Find the surface area of a sphere of radius whose 10.5 cm.(in cm2)