Mensuration-8th std
Mensuration-8th std
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2. The length and breadth of a rectangle are 10 cm and 8 cm respectively. Find its perimeter
if the length and breadth are (i) doubled (ii) halved.
3. A copper wire of length 44 cm is to be bent into a square and a circle. Which will have a
larger area?
4. The length and breadth of a rectangle are in the ratio 4 : 3. If its perimeter is 154 cm, find
its length and breadth.
5. The area of a rectangle is 544 cm2. If its length is 32 cm, find its breadth.
6. If the side of a square is doubled then how much time its area becomes?
7. The areas of a rectangle and a square are equal. If the length of the rectangle is 16 cm
and breadth is 9 cm, find the side of the square.
8. If the lengths of the diagonals of a rhombus are 16 cm and 12 cm, find its area.
9. The area of a rhombus is 16 cm2. If the length of one diagonal is 4 cm, find the length of
the other diagonal.
10. If the diagonals of a rhombus are 12 cm and 5 cm, find the perimeter of the rhombus.
11. The volume of a box is 13400 cm3. The area of its base is 670 cm2. Find the height of the
box.
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14. How many bricks each 25 cm by 15 cm by 8 cm, are required for a wall 32 m long, 3 m
high and 40 cm thick?
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16. The area of a trapezium is 400 cm2, the distance between the parallel sides is 16 cm. If
one of the parallel sides is 20 cm, find the length of the other side.
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18. Three metal cubes of sides 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm are melted and recast into a big cube.
Find its total surface area.
19. The diameter of a roller is 84 cm and its length is 120 cm. It takes 500 complete
revolutions to move once over to level a playground. Find the area of the playground in m2.
20. A rectangular metal sheet of length 44 cm and breadth 11 cm is folded along its length to
form a cylinder. Find its volume.
21. 160 m3 of water is to be used to irrigate a rectangular field whose area is 800 m2. What
will be the height of the water level in the field?
22. Find the area of a rhombus whose one side measures 5 cm and one diagonal as 8 cm.
23. The parallel sides of a trapezium are 40 cm and 20 cm. If its non-parallel sides are both
equal, each being 26 cm, find the area of the trapezium.
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