
A semi-circular waffle sheet of radius is folded into an ice-cream cone as shown below.

Due to overlap while folding, the radius of the base of the cone is of what it would be without overlap. Find the approximate volume of the cone. Show your work. (Note: Take )


Important Questions on Surface Areas and Volumes
A cloche is used to cover dishes before serving. Shown below is a hemispherical glass cloche of radius . Kanan wants to use it to cover a cylindrical cake of volume .
Find one set of values of radius and height of the cake, such that the cloche does not touch the cake when covered. Show your steps. (Note: Take .)

Shown below is a solid made of a cone, a cylinder and a hemisphere.
Prove that the total volume of the solid is twice the volume of the cylinder.

Dinesh is building a green house in his farm as shown below. The base of the greenhouse is circular having a diameter of and it has a hemispherical dome on top.
How much will it cost him to cover the walls and top of the greenhouse with transparent plastic, if the plastic sheet costs per ? Show your steps. (Note: Take )

Shown below is a cake that Subodh is baking for his brother's birthday. The cake is tall and has radius of . He wants to surprise his brother by filling gems inside the cake. In order to do that, he removes a cylindrical portion of cake out of the centre as shown. The piece that is removed is tall.
If the cake weighs per and the weight of the cake that is left after removing the central portion is , find the radius of the central portion that is cut. Show your steps.

Shown below is a triangular prism and a cylinder.
On filling the cylinder with water and completely submerging the prism inside the filled cylinder, some water was forced to overflow out of the cylinder. When the prism was removed again, it was noticed that the cylinder had exactly of its water remaining.
If the volume of the cylinder is litres, what is the volume of the prism? Show your steps and give valid reason.

A paint roller is a paint application tool used for painting large flat surfaces rapidly and efficiently. One such roller is shown below, which is long with an outer diameter of .
Find the maximum area of the surface that gets painted when the roller makes complete rotations vertically. Show your work. (Note: Take )

A container with a grey hemispherical lid has radius . In figure , it contains water up to a height of . It is then inverted as shown in figure .
What is the height of water in figure ?

Anishka melted chocolate cubes in a cylindrical cup as shown.
If the length of the side of each cube is and the radius of the cup is , which of these represents the height of the melted chocolate in the cup? (Note: Take )
