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Grade 8 Mensuration Practice Problems

The document provides formulas for calculating the volume and surface area of various geometric shapes including prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, spheres, and sectors. It also includes a series of practice problems related to mensuration, along with their answers. The problems cover real-world applications of these formulas, such as determining safe sleeping capacity in a dormitory and calculating dimensions for a conical hat.

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Grade 8 Mensuration Practice Problems

The document provides formulas for calculating the volume and surface area of various geometric shapes including prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, spheres, and sectors. It also includes a series of practice problems related to mensuration, along with their answers. The problems cover real-world applications of these formulas, such as determining safe sleeping capacity in a dormitory and calculating dimensions for a conical hat.

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Grade 8 Mensuration practice

Volume of prism = Area of base x height

Volume of cylinder = πr 2 h
𝟏
Volume of pyramid / cone = Area of base x height
𝟑
𝟒
Volume of sphere = πr 2
𝟑
𝟐
Volume of hemisphere = πr 2
𝟑

Curved surface area of cone = πrl where l is slant height

Total surface area of cone = πrl + πr 2

Total surface area of sphere = 4πr 2

Curved surface area of hemisphere = 2πr 2

Total surface area of hemisphere = 3πr 2

θ
Area of sector = x πr 2
𝟑𝟔𝟎

θ
Length of arc of sector = x 2πr
𝟑𝟔𝟎
You may use calculator

1 Safety notices in a hostel state that, where young people are sleeping, there should be at least 18 m3 for
each person in the room.
A dormitory in this hostel is 15 metres long, 12 metres wide and 3.5 metres high.
What is the largest number of young people who can safely sleep in this dormitory?

2 A cuboid has volume 216 cm3 and a total surface area of 216 cm2.
Is it possible for this cuboid to be a cube? Give a reason for your answer.

3 A chocolate box is in the form of a triangular prism.


It is 18 cm long and has a volume of 387 cm3.
What is the area of the triangular end of the box?
4 A cylinder of height 20 cm has a curved surface area of 200 cm2.
Calculate the volume of this cylinder

5 Calculate the curved surface area of a cylinder which has a height of 18 cm and a volume of 390 cm3

6 A cylinder has the same height and radius. The total surface area is 100 π.
Calculate the volume. Give your answer in terms of π
7 A cylindrical food can must have a volume of at least 400 cm3 in order to hold the correct amount.
The diameter of the can has to be 7 cm.
What is the smallest possible height of the can?

8 There is an infrared sensor in a security system. The sensor can detect movement inside a sector of
a circle. The radius of the circle is 16 m. The sector is 120°.
Calculate the area of the sector.
9 Calculate the height h of a rectangular-based pyramid with a length of 14 cm, a width of 10 cm and a
volume of 140 cm3.

10 Candy needs to make a conical hat to go with her fancy dress costume.
She knows that the circumference of the hat is 60 cm, and that she has to cut the material in the shape of
a sector of a circle.
She also knows that the slant edge of the conical hat is 30 cm.
Help Candy to work out the area of the material she needs to make the hat.
ANSWERS

1 35
2 If this were a cube, the side length would be 6 cm, so the total surface area would be 6 × 6 × 6 = 216 cm2
so yes, this particular cuboid could be a cube
3 21.5 cm2
4 159 cm3
5 297 cm2
6 125π cm3
7 10.4 cm
8 268 m2
9 3 cm
10 900 cm2

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