Review Module – SOLID GEOMETRY
POLYHEDRA 1. A rectangular water tank has a base of 3.2 m by 2.5 m and a
height of 1.8 m. Find its volume in liters, and find the total surface
A polyhedron is a solid, 3D-shape with flat surfaces, straight area of the tank in square meters.
edges, and sharp corners.
Faces: The flat, 2D shapes that make up the sides. 2. A regular dodecahedron has an edge length of 5 cm.
Edges: The straight-line segments where two flat faces Determine its volume and its total surface area.
meet.
Vertices: The sharp corner points where the edges meet. 3. The faces of a solid figure are all triangles. The figure has
nine vertices. At each of six of these vertices, four faces meet,
and each of the other three vertices, six faces meet. How many
faces does the figure have?
SOLIDS WITH CONSANT CROSS-SECTION
Prisms and Cylinder:
Volume:
𝑉 = (Area of Base) × (Height)
Lateral Surface Area:
𝐿𝑆 = (Perimeter of the base) × (Height)
Trucated Prism:
Rectangular Parallelepiped:
Volume:
Volume: 𝑉 = (Area of base) × (Average height)
𝑉 = 𝑎𝑏𝑐
Surface Area: A prism has a base in the shape of a hexagon with each side
𝑆 = 𝑎𝑏 + 𝑎𝑐 + 𝑏𝑐 measuring 10 cm. The bases are 15 cm apart.
Platonic Solids 4. What is the volume of the right prism?
A Platonic solid is a 3D-shaped whose faces are all identical, 5. What is the lateral surface area of the prism?
equal-sided flat polygons (like squares or triangles) that meet
at every corner in the exact same way. 6. A truncated prism has a horizontal base ABC. AB= 30 cm,
BC= 40 cm and CA= 50 cm. The vertical edges through A and
C are 18 cm and 27 cm long. If the volume of the prism is 13800
cm3, determine the height of the vertical edge at B.
7. Calculate the volume of the oblique cylinder shown:
Euler’s Characteristic formula:
𝑣+𝑓 =𝑒+2
𝑛𝑓
=𝑒
2
SOLIDS WITH SIMILAR CROSS-SECTION 1
𝑆1 𝑃1 𝐴1 1/2 𝑉1 3
Pyramid, Cone, Frustum, Sphere = =( ) =( )
𝑆2 𝑃2 𝐴2 𝑉2
Where:
𝑆 = side length
𝑃 = perimeter
𝐴 = area
𝑉 = volume
14. A circular cone having an altitude of 9 m is divided into 2
segments having the same vertex. If the smaller altitude is 6 m.
Find the ratio of the volume of small cone to big cone.
Volume: (General Prismoid Formula)
𝐿 15. From the previous item, find the ratio of the surface area of
𝑉 = (𝐴bot + 4𝐴𝑚 + 𝐴top )
6 the small to the big cone.
Volume of a cone:
1
𝑉 = 𝜋𝑟 2 ℎ 16. What is the percentage increase in the volume of the sphere
3
Volume of a frustrum of a cone: given that the increase in surface area is 15%.
𝜋ℎ 2
𝑉= (𝑟 + 𝑅 2 + 𝑟𝑅) 17. A prototype of a machine weighing 100 N is to be designed
3
Volume and Surface Area of a sphere: by an engineering student at a scale of 1:50. Assuming the
4 same type of material is being used, determine the weight of the
𝑉 = 𝜋𝑅 3
3 real machine.
𝑆 = 4𝜋𝑅 2
Volume of a frustrum of sphere:
𝜋ℎ2
𝑉= (3𝑅 − ℎ)
3
8. The base areas of a frustum of a cone are 25 cm2 and 16
cm2, respectively. If the altitude is 6 cm, find its volume.
9. The great pyramid of Egypt has a square base 232 m on a
side and 147 m high. Find its volume.
10. Three spheres of radii 10, 20 and 30 respectively, are
melted and formed into a single sphere. Find the volume of the
single sphere.
11. Find the volume and total surface area of a spherical wedge
whose angle is 54˚ on a sphere of radius 27 cm.
12. The volume of water in a spherical tank having a diameter
of 4 m is 5.236 m3. Determine the depth of the water in the tank.
13. What is the area of the zone considering the height of the
segment is the same as the height of the water in the previous
item?
SIMILAR SOLIDS