
An electrician has to repair an electric fault on a pole of height . She needs to reach a point below the top of the pole to undertake the repair work. What should be the length of the ladder that she should use which, when inclined at an angle of to the horizontal, would enable her to reach the required position? Also, how far from the foot of the pole should she place the foot of the ladder? (You may take )



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Rasheed got a playing top (lattu) as his birthday present, which surprisingly had no colour on it. He wanted to colour it with his crayons. The top is shaped like a cone surmounted by a hemisphere. The entire top is in height and the diameter of the top is . Find the area he has to colour. (Take ).

A wooden toy rocket is in the shape of a cone mounted on a cylinder, as shown in the figure. The height of the entire rocket is , while the height of the conical part is . The base of the conical portion has a diameter of , while the base diameter of the cylindrical portion is . If the conical portion is to be painted orange and the cylindrical portion yellow, find the area of the rocket painted with each of these colours. (Take )

Shanta runs an industry in a shed that is in the shape of a cuboid surmounted by a half cylinder. If the base of the shed is of dimension , and the height of the cuboidal portion is , find the volume of air that the shed can hold. Further, suppose the machinery in the shed occupies a total space of , and there are workers, each of whom occupy about space on an average. Then, how much air is in the shed? (Take )

A juice seller was serving his customers using glasses as shown in the figure. The inner diameter of the cylindrical glass was , but the bottom of the glass had a hemispherical raised portion which reduced the capacity of the glass. If the height of a glass was , find the apparent capacity of the glass and its actual capacity. (Use .)
