Surface Area of a Cuboid

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Surface Area of a Cuboid: Overview

This topic will unfold the concept of cuboid to us. It will illustrate the calculation of the surface area of cuboid with the help of an activity. Furthermore, some related examples are also mentioned here for better understanding.

Important Questions on Surface Area of a Cuboid

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The length, breadth and height of a cuboid are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 6 and its volume is 576 cm3. Find the whole surface area of the cuboid.

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The sum of length, breadth and height of a cuboid is 19 cm and its diagonal is 11 cm. Find the surface area of the cuboid.

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The paint in a certain container is sufficient to paint an area equal to 9.375 m2. How many bricks of dimensions 22.5 cm×10 cm×7.5 cm can be painted out of this container?

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What are the dimensions (length, breadth and height respectively) of a cuboid with volume 720 cm3 , surface area 484 cm2 and the area of the base 72 cm2?

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The length of a room is 43 times its breadth. The total area of the 4 walls of this room is 2815 times the area of the floor of the room. What is the ratio between the height of the room to the length of room?

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The sum of length, breadth and depth of a cuboid is 19 cm, and its diagonal is 55 cm. Its surface area would be:

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The sum of length, breadth and depth of a cuboid is 19 cm and its diagonal is 55 cm. What will be its surface area?

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A room is 6m long, 5 m broad and 4 m high. If all the walls are to be covered with paper 50 cm wide, the length of the paper is:

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The height of a room is 14 of the sum of length and breadth and the cost of painting its walls at the rate of 50 p per m2  is 400. Find its height?

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A cubical box has each edge 15 cm and another cuboidal box is having l, band h as 16.5 cm, 12 cm,and 7 cm respectively. Find out which box has the smaller total surface area.

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The lateral surface area of a cube of side 12 cm is

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Find the lateral surface area of a cuboid with dimensions length =3 cm, breadth =2 cm and height =5 cm.

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Find the lateral surface area of a cuboid with dimensions length =2 m, breadth =4 m and height =5 m.

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A cubical box has each edge 10 cm and another cuboidal box is 12.5 cm long, 10 cm wide and 8 cm height. Which box has the greater lateral surface area and by how much?

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A cubical box has each edge 10 cm and another cuboidal box is 12.5 cm long, 10 cm wide and 8 cm height. Which box has the greater lateral surface area and by how much?

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A cubical box has each edge 10 cm and another cuboidal box is 12.5 cm long, 10 cm wide and 8 cm height. Which box has the smaller total surface area and by how much?

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Swetha cake shop was placing an order for making cardboard boxes for packing their cakes. Two sizes of boxes were required. The bigger box of dimensions 25 cm×20 cm×5 cm and the smaller box of dimensions 15 cm×12 cm×5 cm. For all the overlaps, 5% of the total surface area is required extra. If the cost of the cardboard is 4 for 1000 cm2, find the cost of cardboard required for supplying 250 boxes of each kind.

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A cube with 3-inch edges is to be constructed from 27 smaller cubes with 1-inch edges. Twenty-one of the cubes are coloured red and 6 are coloured white. If the 3-inch cube is constructed to have the smallest possible white surface area showing, then what fraction of the surface area is white?

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Diagonal of a cuboid is 43 cm and the surface area equal to 96 sq cm. Then
1. l+b+h=122. l2+b2+h2=lb+bh+hl3. l=b=h
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The sum of the dimensions of a cuboid is 9 cm and the surface area is 45 cm. Calculate the length of its diagonal.