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Class 10 - Mathematics - CHAPTER 12: Surface Areas & VolumesExercise 12.1
Class 10 - Mathematics - CHAPTER 12: Surface Areas & Volumes
Question. 1
A cylindrical pencil sharpened at one edge is the combination of
a cone and a cylinder
frustum of a cone and a cylinder
a hemisphere and a cylinder
two cylinders
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Question. 2
A surahi is the combination of
a sphere and a cylinder
a hemisphere and a cylinder
two hemispheres
a cylinder and a cone
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Question. 3
A plumbline (sahul) is the combination of (see Fig.)

a cone and a cylinder
a hemisphere and a cone
frustum of a cone and a cylinder
a sphere and a cylinder
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Question. 4
The shape of a glass (tumbler) (see Fig.) is usually in the form of

a cone
frustum of a cone
a cylinder
a sphere
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Question. 5
The shape of a gilli, in the gilli–danda game (see Fig.), is a combination of

two cylinders
a cone and a cylinder
two cones and a cylinder
two cylinders and a cone
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Question. 6
A shuttlecock used for badminton has the shape of the combination of
a cylinder and a sphere
a cylinder and a hemisphere
a sphere and a cone
frustum of a cone and a hemisphere
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Question. 7
A cone is cut by a plane parallel to its base and the cone on one side of the plane is removed. The part left is called
a frustum of a cone
cone
cylinder
sphere
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Question. 8
A hollow cube of internal edge 22 cm is filled with spherical marbles of diameter 0.5 cm. If \(\dfrac{1}{8}\) of the space remains unfilled, then the number of marbles the cube can accommodate is
142296
142396
142496
142596
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Question. 9
A metallic spherical shell with internal and external diameters 4 cm and 8 cm is recast into a cone of base diameter 8 cm. The height of the cone is
12 cm
14 cm
15 cm
18 cm
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Question. 10
A solid iron cuboid of dimensions 49 cm \(\times\) 33 cm \(\times\) 24 cm is moulded into a sphere. The radius of the sphere is
21 cm
23 cm
25 cm
19 cm
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Question. 11
A wall of dimensions 270 cm \(\times\) 300 cm \(\times\) 350 cm is built with bricks of size 22.5 cm \(\times\) 11.25 cm \(\times\) 8.75 cm. If \(\dfrac{1}{8}\) of the space is covered by mortar, the number of bricks used is
11100
11200
11000
11300
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Question. 12
Twelve solid spheres of the same size are made by melting a solid metallic cylinder of base diameter 2 cm and height 16 cm. The diameter of each sphere is
4 cm
3 cm
2 cm
6 cm
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Question. 13
The radii of the top and bottom of a bucket (frustum) are 28 cm and 7 cm, and its slant height is 45 cm. The curved surface area is
4950 cm²
4951 cm²
4952 cm²
4953 cm²
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Question. 14
A medicine capsule is a cylinder of diameter 0.5 cm with two hemispherical ends. The length of the capsule is 2 cm. Its capacity is
0.36 cm³
0.35 cm³
0.34 cm³
0.33 cm³
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Question. 15
Two solid hemispheres of the same base radius \(r\) are joined along their bases. The curved surface area of the new solid is
\(4\pi r^2\)
\(6\pi r^2\)
\(3\pi r^2\)
\(8\pi r^2\)
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Question. 16
A right circular cylinder of radius \(r\) cm and height \(h\) cm (with \(h>2r\)) just encloses a sphere. The diameter of the sphere is
\(r\) cm
\(2r\) cm
\(h\) cm
\(2h\) cm
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Question. 17
During conversion of a solid from one shape to another, the volume of the new shape will
increase
decrease
remain unaltered
be doubled
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Question. 18
The diameters of the two circular ends of a bucket are 44 cm and 24 cm. The height of the bucket is 35 cm. The capacity of the bucket is (in litres)
32.7 litres
33.7 litres
34.7 litres
31.7 litres
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Question. 19
In a right circular cone, the cross-section made by a plane parallel to the base is a
circle
frustum of a cone
sphere
hemisphere
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Question. 20
Volumes of two spheres are in the ratio \(64:27\). The ratio of their surface areas is
\(3:4\)
\(4:3\)
\(9:16\)
\(16:9\)