Volume of Solids

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Volume of Solids: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Volume of a Cube, Volume of a Right Circular Cylinder, Volume of a Solid Shape, Relation between Volume and Capacity of a Solid Shape, Litre as Unit of Capacity and, Solving Word Problems Using Formulas of Mensuration

Important Questions on Volume of Solids

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The dimensions of an open box are 50 cm, 40 cm and 23 cm. Its thickness is 3 cm. If 1 cubic cm of metal used in the box weighs 0.5 gms, find the weight of the box.

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 The units of Volume and Capacity are same.

Check whether the given statement is true or false.

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Find the volume of the cylinder if the circumference of the cylinder is 132 cm and height is 25 cm.

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A well with inner diameter 12 m is dug 17 m deep. Earth taken out of it has been evenly placed all round it to a width of 5 m to form an embankment. Find the height of the embankment.

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A cylindrical container 21 m in radius and 72 m high is full of water. The water is emptied into a rectangular tank  63 m long and 24 m wide. Find the height of the water level in the tank.

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What length of a solid cylinder 2 cm in diameter must be taken to recast into a hollow cylinder of external diameter 20 cm,15 cm long and 0.25 cm  thickness. 

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When a solid metal cube is completely submerged in a cylinderical vessel containing milk, with diameter 30 cm, the level of milk rises by 14199 cm Find the length of edge of the metal cube.

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The volume of metallic cylindrical pipe is 748 cm3 Its length is 14 cm and its external radius is 9 cm Find its thickness.

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At a Rath Mela, a stall keeper in one of food stalls has a large cylindercal jar of base radius 15 cm filled up to a height of 32 cm with fruit juice. The juice is filled in small cylindrical glasses of each radius 3 cm upto a height of 8 cm and sold for 10 each. How much money does the stall keeper receive by selling the juice completely?

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The circumference of the base of a cylindrical vessel is 132 cm and its height is 25 cm .Find Volume of cylinder.

If the answer is k cm3 , then write the value of k.

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A closed rectangular box 40 cm long, 30 cm wide and 25 cm deep has the same volume as that of a cylinder tin of radius 17.5 cm. Calculate the height of the cylindrical tin correct to 1 decimal place.

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Water flows through a cylindrical pipe of internal diameter 7 cm at 36 km/hr. Calculate the time in minutes it would take to fill a cylindrical tank, the radius of whose base is 35 cm and height 1 m

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Earth taken out on digging a circular tank of diameter 14 m is spread all around the tank uniformly to a width of 3.5 m to form an embankment of height 8 m. Calculate the depth of the circular tank.

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Water flows through a cylindrical pipe of internal diameter 7 cm at 5 m/s . Calculate the time in minutes the pipe would take to fill an empty rectangular tank 4m×3m×2.31m

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Water flows through a cylindrical pipe of internal diameter 7 cm at 5 metres per second. Calculate  the volume in litres of water discharged by the pipe in one minute.

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The volume of a metal pipe whose inside diameter is 6 cm and whose outside diameter is 8 cm and is 20 cm long is k cm3, then find the value of k.

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A cylinder of base diameter 8 cm has a volume of 100 cm3. Find the height.

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A pipe, made of metal 1 cm thick, has an external radius 11 cm. If the volume of metal used in making 2.8 m of pipe is k cm2, then find the value of k.

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A rectangular paper 22 cm by 16 cm can be exactly wrapped to cover the curved surface of a cylinder of height 16 cm Find the volume of the cylinder.

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An electric geyser is cylindrical in shape, having a diameter of 3.5 cm and height of 1.2 m Neglecting the thickness of its walls, calculate its capacity in litres.