1. In a circle diameter of 12 inches, a regular five-pointed star is inscribed.

What is the area of that

part not covered by the star?
2. In a circle with diameter of 20 cm, a regular five-pointed star touching its circumference is
inscribed. Find the area of the star.
3. What is the area of a section bounded by a closed elliptical whose major and minor segments
measure 60 cm and 45 cm respectively?
4. Determine the area of the circle circumscribing a regular 6-pointed star if the inner regular
hexagon has 25 cm on a side.
5. What is the area of a parabola inscribed in a rectangle 30 cm long and 22 cm wide?
6. What is the perimeter of an ellipse with an area equal to 12π square units if the non opposite
vertices are 5 units apart?
7. The composite area shown consists of a semicircle and region bounded by line BC and the two
congruent arcs AB and AC whose radii are each 12 inches and each central angle is 60⁰. Find the
area of this figure.
8. Each of the four quarter arcs shown in figure measures 16 feet in length. Find the area of the
unshaded region.

B C

12''

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A
Problem 7 Problem 8
9. If the area of the square shown in the figure is 36 square inches, find the area of the inscribed
four-leaf figure.
10. Find the approximate area of the shaded figure shown using Simpson’s rule. Assume uniform
distance between the two given curves. Express all units in kilometers.
11. Using the Simpson’s rule and an interval of d=0.5, approximate area of the region bounded by
the curve defined by 𝑦 = √𝑥 + 2 and the x-axis.

Problem 9

y= x+2
y
1.0
Y2=9 Y6= 11.5
Y4= 10.5
Yo= 10
Y1= 9.5 Y3= 10 Y5= 12

d=2 x=1 x=4 x

Problem 11
Problem 10
 12. Find the area of the shaded region.

3''

3''

2'' 2''
Problem 12

EXERCISES 7
1. A Cube has one face that is equal to the total surface area of another cube. Find the ratio of
their volumes.
2. Find the approximate change in the volume of a rectangular
solid caused by increasing each side 5%.
3. Find the area of the triangular section of the
rectangular solid shown in the figure.
4. Find the distance, in inches, between two vertices of
a cube that are farthest from each other if an edge 8"

measures 10 inches.
4"
5. If an edge of a cube is increased by 33%, by how
much is the total surface area increased? 12"
Problem 3
6. An edge of a cube of ice measures 20 inches. The ice melts until it weighs half as heavy as the
original size. Find the dimension of the new ice cube.
7. Find the volume of a regular hexahedron if one of the diagonals of its faces is 8√2 inches.
8. How many square inches of a material is needed to create an open top rectangular solid whose
volume is 54 cubic inches? Assume that the length and width are of the same measurement that
the height is twice the length.
9. Find the volume and the total surface area of
the rectangular solid shown in the figure.
10. A classroom is 38 feet long, 24 feet wide and
10 ft high. Determine the volume and surface
area. 29

11. What is the weight of a steel plate 15 feet 3

long, 4 ft wide and 5/8 inch thick, if the steel

weighs 475 lbs/ft3?

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12. The volume of a rectangular solid is 810m3.
Problem 9
Find its dimensions if they are in the ratio of
2:3:5.
13. How many kips (1kilopound=1000lb) of a coal are contained in a rectangular coal bin 10 feet
long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet high if the coal is 6 feet deep. Cool weighs 40 lbs per cubic foot.
14. To excavate for a basement, 7m by 12m, a man had the earth removed to a depth of 3m. how
much did this cost at P100 per cubic meter of earth removed?
 15. How many cubic feet of concrete is required to build a retaining wall 115 feet long, 8 ft high and
18 inch wide?
16. How many gallons of paint are required to paint the walls of a building 50ft long, 40ft wide and
80ft high, if 1 gallon of paint will cover 500 square
feet of the wall?
17. A swimming pool is 30 ft wide. 50 ft long and 8 ft
deep. After an earthquake, the pool is tilted along
B
the edge CD and the water completely covers the A
30ft
side ABCD. At this point, ¾ of the bas is covered by
C D
water. What was the water level before the 50 ft
earthquake? Problem 17

EXERCISES 8
1. A container in the form of a triangular prism as shown in the figure below contains water at a
depth of 6 inches. Find the volume of water and the wet part of the container.
8"

18"

Problem 1
12" 6"

2. Find the volume of a right triangular prism whose height is 100 cm and whose base is a right
triangle with a hypotenuse of 30 cm in length and an angle equal to 60⁰.
3. Find the height of a prism with a base in the form of a sector with central angle equal to 25⁰. Its
volume is found to be 350in3 and the height is four times the radius of the base.
4. The base of a prism is a regular pentagon with one side measuring 15cm. Find the volume and
the lateral surface area if the altitude measures 32 cm.
5. A flower vase, in the form of hexagonal prism, is to be filled with 512 cubic inches of water. Find
the height of the water if the wet portion of the flower vase and its volume are numerically
equal.
6. Each of the bases of right prism is a regular hexagon with one side measuring 6 cm. What is the
volume of the prism if the bases are 15cm apart?
7. A right section of an oblique prism is a hexagon whose sides are 3cm, 4cm, 4cm, 5cm, 6cm and
7cm. The measure of one lateral edge is 7cm. Find the lateral area.
8. A right prism has a square base and lateral edge 8cm. Find the area of the base if the lateral area
is 96cm2.
9. The perimeter of a right section of a prism is 30 cm and the lateral area is 360cm2. What is the
length of the lateral edge?
10. Each base of a right prism is a rhombus. The diagonal of a base are 12 and 6, and the altitude of
the prism is 18. Find the volume of the lateral area
11. Classify each of the prisms below. Compute for the volume of solid (a), and the volume and the
lateral area of each of the remaining solids.

b)
a)

9cm

9'

75°
2cm 2cm

3'
base is a
regular Problem 11
pentagon

c) d)

8m
16"

3m
4" 4m

12. What is the least number of faces a prism can have? the greatest?
13. One edge of an oblique prism forms an angle of 30⁰ with its projection on the plane of one base.
If the lateral edge is 15 cm long and the base area is 20cm2, find the volume of the prism.
14. If a lateral edge of a prism is an altitude; what kind of prism is it?
15. If the plane angles of the faces are called face angles, find the sum of the face angles of a
hexagonal prism.
16. How many edges does a hexagonal prism have? A pentagonal prism?
17. A right prism has right triangular bases ABC and A’B’C’ with right angles at A and A’. the edge
AA’ is 20cm long, side AB is 24 cm long, and side AC is 18cm long. If a plane is passed through
the edge AC cutting the opposite edge, BB’ at a point 14cm from B’. Find the distance from point
to this plane. Also, find the area of this plane.
18. Find the volume of each cylinder.

19. If the lateral area of a right circular cylinder is 90 cm2 and its volume is 225 cm3, find its radius.
20. A circular cylinder with a volume of 8π m3 is circumscribed about a right prism whose base is an
equilateral triangle with one side that measures 2m. What is the altitude of the cylinder?
21. A cylindrical log of radius 60cm and 800cm long is to be cut to form a wood with a square cross
section. Find the largest volume of the wood that can be obtained. Express the volume in cubic
meters.
22. An object whose ends are regular hexagons was cut from a cylindrical wooden solid of length 24
inches and 1.3 inches in diameter. Find the volume of the said object with the least waste
material that can be taken from the wood.
23. A cylindrical tank of height equal to twice the diameter of its base can hold 10 liters
(1L=1000cm3) of water. Another cylindrical container with the same capacity has its height equal
 to three times the diameter of its base. Find the ratio of the amount of aluminum required for
making the two containers with covers.
24. Find the volume of the largest cylinder with a circular base that can be inscribed in a cube which
has a volume of 27m3.
25. What must be the dimensions of a steel cylinder in feet if it is to contain 2,020 gallons of water
(7.48 gal = 1ft3) and it is required to have a height that is equal to its diameter.
26. A 3-inch-diameter hole is drilled 6 inch deep into the center and normal to the top face of a
brass cube 8 inches on a side. The hole is filled with lead. If the brass weighs 525 lb/ft3 and the
lead weighs 705lb/ft3. Find the total mass of the two metals.
27. A closed cylindrical tank measures 12 ft. long and 5 ft in
diameter. It has to contain water with a depth of 3 feet
when the tank is lying in horizontal position. Find the
height of the water when the tank is in its vertical
position.
28. Find the lateral area of a cylinder of height 12 inches and
base radius or 4 inches.
29. What dimensions of a tin can of volume 54π cm3 should be produced if it is required that its
height be equal to the diameter of its base?
30. A cylindrical vessel of height 10 feet has an outside diameter of 6ft and a wall thickness of 0.5
inch. What is the volume of the water inside the cylindrical tank?
31. Referring to problem 30, how many gallons of water will the tank hold?
32. A cylindrical tank has a lateral surface area of 88π cm2 and a volume of176π cm3. Find the base
area.
33. How many square feet of aluminum materials will be needed in order to construct an open top
right cylindrical tank which is 6 ft high and has a diameter of 2 feet, if only 5% of the total
surface of the cylinder is to be allowed for waste?
34. Suppose the volume in cubic cm of a cylindrical shaft of unknown length is numerically equal to
its lateral surface area. Find the radius of the shaft.
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35. A metal washer 1-inch in diameter is pierced by a 2 – inch hole. What is the volume of the
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washer if it is 8 – inch thick?
36. If a prism is inscribed in a circular cylinder, is its lateral area greater than the lateral area of the
cylinder? How do the two volumes compare?
37. A cylindrical gas bottle has internal dimensions of 18 cm in diameter and 49 cm in height. It is
designed to contain compressed oxygen gas. The bottle has a mass of 1.75 kg when empty and
3.15 kg when full of oxygen gas in a full bottle in kg/m3?
38. What is the lateral area of a cylinder whose element is 8 inches and whose right section has a
perimeter of 24 inches?
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39. The inside diameter of a garden hose is 4 inch. What length of hose can be filled with a gallon of
water?
EXERCISES 9
1. Find the volume of the lateral surface area and the total surface area of each pyramid.

2. Find the volume and the total surface of a regular tetrahedron whose measure of one edge is
10cm.
3. A regular pentagonal pyramid with a slant height of 9m has a volume equal to 50m3. Find the
lateral area of the pyramid.
4. A regular pentagonal pyramid has an altitude of 20cm and a slant height which measure 25cm.
find the base ant the lateral areas of the pyramid.
5. An inverted square pyramid has a height equal to 24cm. it holds water to a depth of 18cm above
its apex. Find the volume of its content if the top face has an area 100cm2.
6. The inverted pyramidal tank has an equilateral triangular base 3 ft on a side and an altitude of 7
ft.
a. How many gallons of water can the tank hold?
b. What will be the wetted area of the pyramid if the depth of the water is 4 ft.
7. A liquid vessel which is initially empty is in the form of an inverted regular hexagonal pyramid of
altitude 25ft and base edge 10 ft. how much will the surface rise when 6779 liters of water is
added?
8. A right square pyramid has 15cm on a side of its base and an altitude of 18cm. Find the area of a
parallel section 6 cm from the base.
9. A cutting plane is passed through a right regular hexagonal pyramid whose measure of one base
edge is 8 inches. If the said plane parallel to and 6 inches from the base of the pyramid makes a
section with an area 18.5 square inches. Find the altitude of the pyramid.
10. A right pyramid has a square base and lateral area of 144 in2. If the slant height is twice the
length of a base edge, find the volume.
11. The right pyramid shown in the figure is inscribed in a rectangular solid.
Find:
a. the lateral area of the pyramid,
b. the volume of the pyramid and the volume of the portion of the
rectangular solid that is outside the pyramid.
12. How far from the base of a pyramid of altitude 10m is a section parallel to
the base and equal in area to half the base?
13. The center of a cube, which is equidistant from the vertices, is connected with each vertex. How
many congruent pyramids are formed? If the edge of the cube is 12 inches, find the volume of
one of the pyramids.
14. The steeple on a church is a right hexagonal pyramid 5 feet on a side. If the altitude is 19.5 feet,
compute the number of squares of rooting required to cover this steeple. Square roofing is
equivalent to 100 square feet.
15. Find the volume of the pyramid bounded by the plane 2x + 3y + z = 6 and the coordinate planes.
16. A plane parallel to the base of a regular square pyramid divides the pyramid into two solids
having equal lateral edges. Where does the plane cut the altitude?
17. The most economical proportions for a right circular cone is to have its height three times as
long as its base diameter. What lateral area of the cone would produce a volume of 100m3?
18. A right circular cone has a lateral area of 1,280π ft2 and a base area of 512π ft2. Find the volume.
19. A right circular cone is inscribed in a cube having one edge which measures 10cm. find the
lateral area of the cone.
20. A right circular cone is inscribed in a cube having a diagonal which measures 10√3 cm. Find the
volume of the cone and the volume of space between the cone and the cube.
21. Find the volume of a cone formed from a sector of diameter 72 inches and a central angle of
7𝜋/6.
22. Find the volume of the grain holder shown in the figure.

23. Find the volume of each of the circular shown below. For the right circular cones, find their
surfaces areas.

24. If the diameter of the base remains constant, by what factor should the altitude be multiplied to
produce a cone with twice volume as the original?
25. If the altitude of a cone remains constant by what factor should the diameter be multiplied in
order to construct a cone with a volume that is triple as the original?
26. Water is flowing out of a conical funnel through its apex at a rate of 12cubic inches per minute.
If the funnel is initially full, how long will it take for it to be one-third-full? What is the height of
the water level? Assume the radius to be 6 inches and the altitude of the cone to be 15 inches.
27. Two similar cones have volumes 81π/2 in3 and 12 π in3 and slant height of the bigger cone is 7.5
in. Find the integer solution to the height of the smaller cone.
28. If the slant height of the cone is 16inches and the total area is 120 π square inches, find the
length of the cone.
29. What is the height of a right circular cone having a slant height of 6√10 units and a base radius
of 6 units?
30. Find the ratio of the slant height to the radius of a right circular cone whose volume and lateral
area are numerically equal. Assume the altitude of the cone to be 9 units.
31. A cone and a cylinder both of circular bases have the same height and the same volume. Find
the ratio of their radii.
32. Two right circular cones have equal bases. The altitude of one cone is four times the diameter of
its base while the other cone has an altitude equal to its diameter. Find the dimensions of the
larger cone if the difference of their volumes is 16 π cubic units.
33. An inverted right circular conical tank has an altitude equal to 7 inches and a base with radius
1.25 inches. Find the dimensions and the volume of a similar tank whose volume is three times
as much as the first conical tank.
34. Find the angle of the sector of a circle of radius 20 units whose area is equal to the lateral area
of a cone with radius 8 units.
35. A steel cylinder has 4-in-diameter base and a height of 6 inches. A hole on the form of a right
circular cone with its base coincident with the base of the cylinder and axis coincident with the
axis of the cylinder is filled with lead. The diameter of the base of the cone is 2 inches and its
height is 1inch. If the steel weighs 490 lb/ft3 and the lead weights lb/ft3. Find the total weight of
the composite solid.
36. A circular piece of cardboard with a diameter of 25cm will be made into a conical hat 10cm high
by cutting a sector off and joining the edges to form a cone. Determine the angle subtended by
the sector removed.

EXERCISES 10
1. What is the volume of a frustum of an aluminum cone whose altitude is 15 inches and, whose
lower and upper bases have radii 10 inches and 5 inches respectively?
2. The height of a storage bin, in the form of a frustum of a rectangular pyramid, is 6 ft. its volume
is 818 ft3, and the upper base is 4 ft by 16 ft. What are the dimensions of the lower base?
3. A granite block, in the form of a frustum of a regular pyramid, has equilateral triangles as its
bases. The upper and lower base areas are 64m2 and 225m2 respectively. If the volume is 818
m3, determine the height of the frustum.
4. The bottom side and height of an inverted frustum of a
square pyramid are 15 cm and 30cm, respectively. If it is to
hold 12,250 cm3 of water, find the side of the upper base.
5. A prismatoid has an altitude of 15cm. find its volume if the
mid-section area is 67.5cm2, the lower base is a square with
an area 100cm2, and the upper base is an equilateral
triangle with an area 35cm2.
6. The crystalline solid shown in the figure has two parallel
planes; plane ABS is a right triangle and plane DEFG which is
a rectangle. All face angles at B, D and E are 90⁰. Find the
volume of the solid.

7. The top plane of the truncated octagonal right prism shown in figure below 45⁰ with respect to
the horizontal. Find the volume.
8. Find the volume of a truncated right square prism with side 5 m, and whose lateral edges are
3m, 5m, 7m, and 9m respectively.
9. A woodman chops halfway through a tree, one face being horizontal, the other inclined at 45⁰.
What is the radius of the tree if the volume of the wood cut is 18ft3?
10. Two cylinders of equal radius have their axes meeting at right angles. Find the radius of the
cylinders if the volume of the common portion is 144cm3.
11. A block of earth in the form of a truncated right prism has a square base with 12-cm edges. Two
adjacent lateral edges are each 20cm long ant the other two lateral edges are each 14cm long.
Find the total surface area of the block.
12. Find the volume of a truncated right cylinder of base radius 12
cm, if the shortest and the longest elements are 18cm and 22cm
respectively.
13. Using the formula for the volume of a prismatoid, find the
volume of the frustum of a square pyramid if the lower base is
20 inches on a side, the upper base is 12 inches on a side, and
the altitude is 14 feet.
14. In the figure shown, determine the following:
a. the area of the mid-section
b. the volume of the solid
All face at A and B are 90⁰.
15. A curved wedge is cut out from a cylinder of radius 4 inches by two planes. One plane is
perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder. The second plane crosses the first plane at 45⁰ angle at
the center of the cylinder. Find the volume of the wedge.
16. Using the prismatoid formula, derive the formulas for the volumes of a prism, pyramid,
cylinder, and a cone.
17. Derive the formula for the volume of a frustum of a pyramid using the formula for the volume of
prismatoid.

EXERCISES 11
1. If an inflatable ball has an inside radius of 10cm and it could safely be filled with helium to 85%
of its volume, compute for the volume of the gas that could safely be contained in the sphere.
2. If the diameter of a sphere is triples, by how much is the volume increased?
3. A sphere is circumscribing a cubical box having a volume 3,375 m3. Find the volume of the space
between the cubical box and the sphere.
4. The volume of the sphere inscribed in a cubical box is 2304π cubic units. Find the ration of the
volume of the unfilled space between the cubical box and the sphere to the volume of the
cubical box.
5. A group of kids playing with marbles placed 30 pieces of the marbles inside a hexagonal prism
with water filled to a height of 15cm. if the radius of the marble is 1.2 cm and the base edge of
the prism is 6cm, determine the new height of water inside the prism after the marbles were
placed inside.
6. A billboard ball is inscribed in a plastic cubical box having a volume of 2,744 mm3. What is the
ratio of the billboard ball to that of the volume of the plastic cubical box?
7. A cylindrical container 2 inches in radius is filled with certain liquid. A metal orb is submerged in
it, displacing the liquid to a height of 0.5 inch. Determine the radius of the metal orb.
8. A cubical basin that measures 2 m on a side is tightly brunched with 8 metal balls and is filled
with liquid. All 8 balls are in contact with the walls of the basin and the adjacent balls. If all of
the balls are of the same size, find the volume of the liquid in the basin.
9. Find the volume of the spherical segment with diameter 20 inches and a zone area of 160π in2.
10. Find the volume of a spherical segment, if the diameters of the bases are 10 cm and 12 cm
respectively and the height is 10 cm.
11. A hemispherical container contains water to a depth of 10cm. if the volume of the water inside
the container is 5000π/3 cm3, find the diameter vessel.
12. Determine the distance from the center of a sphere with diameter 40 inches should a plane be
passed so that the ratio of the areas of the two zones is 5:9.
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13. The spherical zone area of a spherical segment is 2 that of a sphere. Find the ratio of the radius
to the altitude of the zone.
14. A bowling ball having a radius of 1 foot is cut into two segments. The height of the smaller
spherical segment is 3 inches. Find the ratio of the area of the zone of the larger spherical
segment to that of the smaller segment.
15. A wooden ball 7 inches in radius sinks to a depth of 10 inches in a river. Find the exposed area of
the ball above the water.
16. A hemispherical rubber ball of diameter of 10 m is filled with liquid to a depth of 4m. Determine
the surface area of the ball which is not in contact with the liquid.
17. Find the area of the spherical lune whose dihedral angle is 60⁰ if the diameter of the sphere is
80mm.
18. The area of a spherical lune is 20cm2 while the area of a sphere is 80cm2. Find the volume of the
spherical wedge.
19. The area of a spherical lune is 8π cm2 and the diameter is 12cm. what is the dihedral angle θ, in
degrees?
20. What is the spherical excess of a spherical triangle whose angles are 84⁰, 73⁰ and 97⁰?
21. How many spherical degrees are in spherical triangle contain 120⁰, 70⁰, and 70⁰?
22. The angle of a spherical triangle measures 85⁰, 75⁰, and 130⁰, respectively, and the radius of the
sphere is 10 inches in length. Find the area of the spherical triangle.
23. A lune whose angle is 45⁰ has the same area as that of a zone on the same sphere, what is the
ratio of the radius of the sphere to the altitude of the zone?
24. The angles of a spherical triangle are 70⁰, 80⁰, and 90⁰. Find the angle of a lune with the same
area as the triangle.
25. How many spherical wedges can be made from a sphere if the angle of the wedge is 60⁰?
26. The base of a spherical pyramid has a triangular base whose angles are 70⁰, 100⁰, and 110⁰. If
the radius of the sphere is 10 inches. Find the volume of the pyramid.
27. A spherical wedge of a sphere of radius 12 inches has an angle which measures 90⁰. Find the
volume of the wedge.
28. If a=45⁰ and c=70⁰ are two sides of a right spherical triangle ABC, find the measure of side b.
29. Find the area of a spherical triangle ABC whose angles are 93⁰, 64⁰, and 116⁰. The radius of the
sphere is 100m.
30. A spherical triangle on a sphere has an area of 419 sq.m. Find the radius of the sphere if the
spherical excess of the triangle is 60⁰.
31. Find the angle C of an oblique spherical triangle ABC whose sides a and c are 80⁰ and 110⁰,
respectively, and the angle A=60⁰.
32. Find the volume and the total surface area of a spherical cone which consists of a right circular
cone whose slant height measures 10 inches and a spherical segment with a base radius of 3
inches.
33. A ball is inscribed in a cubical box having volume of 15,625mm3. Determine the volume of the
empty space between the ball and the cubical box.