Atomic Energy Central School, KUDANKULAM

WORKSHEET 3
Class 08 - Mathematics

1. The shape of the top surface of a table is a trapezium. Find its area, if its parallel sides are 1 m and 1.2 m and
perpendicular distance between them is 0.8 m.
2. The area of trapezium is 34 cm2 and the length of one of the parallel sides is 10 cm and its height is 4 cm. Find the length
of the another parallel side.
3. Length of the fence of a trapezium-shaped field ABCD is 120 m. If BC = 48 m, CD = 17 m and AD = 40 m, find the area
of this field. Side AB is perpendicular to the parallel sides AD and BC.

4. The diagonal of a rhombus are 7.5 cm and 12 cm. Find its area.
5. The floor of a building consists of 3000 tiles which are rhombus shaped and each of its diagonals are 45 cm and 30 cm in

length. Find the total cost of polishing the floor, if the cost per m2 is ₹ 4.
6. Mohan wants to buy a trapezium-shaped field. Its side along the river is parallel to and twice the side along the road. If
the area of this field is 10500 m2 and the perpendicular distance between the two parallel sides is 100 m, find the length
of the side along the river.

7. Top surface of a raised platform is in the shape of a regular octagon as shown in the figure. Find the area of the octagonal
surface.

8. There is a pentagonal shaped park as shown in the figure. For finding its area Jyoti and Kavita divided it in two different
ways.

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 Find the area of this park using both ways. Can you suggest some other way of finding area?
9. Diagram of the adjacent picture frame has outer dimensions = 24 cm × 28 cm and inner dimensions 16 cm × 20 cm.
Find the area of each section of the frame, if the width of each section is the same

10. There are two cuboidal boxes as shown in the adjoining figure. Which box requires the least amount of material to
make?

11. Find the side of a cube whose surface area is 600 cm2.
12. Daniel is painting the walls and ceiling of a cuboidal hall with length, breadth and height of 15 m, 10 m and 7 m
respectively. From each can of paint 100 m2 of area is painted. How many cans of paint will she need to paint the room?
13. Describe how the two figures at the right are alike and how they are different. Which box has larger lateral surface area?

14. The lateral surface area of a hollow cylinder is 4224 cm2. It is cut along its height and formed a rectangular sheet of
width 33 cm. Find the perimeter of rectangular sheet?
15. A road roller takes 750 complete revolutions to move once over to level a road. Find the area of the road if the diameter
of a road roller is 84 cm and length is 1 m.

16. A company packages its milk powder in cylindrical container whose base has a diameter of 14 cm and height 20 cm.
Company places a label around the surface of the container (as shown in the figure). If the label is placed 2 cm from top

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 and bottom, what is the area of the label.

17. A cylindrical tank, in which situation will you find surface area and in which situation volume. To find how much it can
hold.

18. A cylindrical tank, in which situation will you find surface area and in which situation volume. To find the number of
smaller tanks that can be filled with water from it.

19. Diameter of cylinder A is 7 cm, and the height is 14 cm. Diameter of cylinder B is 14 cm and height is 7 cm. Without
doing any calculations can you suggest whose volume is greater? Verify it by finding the volume of both the cylinders.
Check whether the cylinder with greater volume also has greater surface area?
i.

ii.

20. Find the height of a cuboid whose base area is 180 cm2 and volume is 900 cm3?
21. Find the height of the cylinder whose volume is 1.54 m3 and diameter of the base is 140 cm?
22. A milk tank is in the form of cylinder whose radius is 1.5 m and length is 7 m. Find the quantity of milk in litres that can
be stored in the tank?

23. If each edge of a cube is doubled. How many times will its surface area increase?
24. If each edge of a cube is doubled. How many times will its volume increase?

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25. Water is pouring into a cuboidal reservoir at the rate of 60 liters per minute. If the volume of reservoir is 108 m3, find the
number of hours it will take to fill the reservoir.

26. The area of a trapezium shaped field is 480 m2, the distance between two parallel sides is 15 m and one of the parallel
side is 20 m. Find the other parallel side.

27. The area of a rhombus is 240 cm2 and one of the diagonals is 16 cm. Find the other diagonal.
28. An aquarium is in the form of a cuboid whose external measures are 80cm × 30cm × 40cm . The base, side faces and
back face are to be covered with a coloured paper. Find the area of the paper needed.
29. In a building, there are 24 cylindrical pillars. The radius of each pillar is 28 cm and height is 4 m. Find the total cost of

painting the curved surface area of all pillars at the rate of ₹8 per m2.

30. Find the height of a cylinder whose radius is 7 cm and the total surface area is 968 cm2.
31. Find the height of a cuboid whose volume is 275 cm3 and base area is 25 cm2.
32. A godown is in the form of a cuboid of measures 60m × 40m × 30m . How many cuboidal boxes can be stored in it if

the volume of one box is 0.8 m3?

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