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Directions: Solve the following problems neatly. Show complete solution. Draw the necessary diagrams and
label its parts. Use black or blue pen only.

1. A triangular pyramid has a base whose sides are 5 cm, 7 cm and 7.5 cm. If the height of the pyramid is
10 cm, what is the volume of the pyramid?

2. A square pyramid has base edge 4 cm and altitude 10 cm. Find the following
a) Lateral area b) surface area c) volume

3. A square pyramid of base edge and height equal to 12 inches is cut from a cube with least waste. What
is the volume of the cube?

4. A paper weight is in the shape of a regular pentagonal pyramid. Its lateral edge is 13 cm and its height
is 5 cm. Find its lateral area.
5. The height of a regular pyramid is ¾ times its base edge. The volume of the pyramid is 256 3 cu. In.
Find
a) The base edge of the pyramid b) the lateral area of the pyramid

6. Find the volume of a regular square pyramid whose slant height is 25 cm and whose height is 24 cm.

7. Find the volume of a regular octagonal pyramid whose base edge is 8 cm and whose slant height is 16
cm.

8. Find the volume of a heptagonal pyramid whose base edge is equal to 12 cm and with one lateral edge
of 15 cm and which forms an angle of 45 O with the base.

9. Find the volume of a right circular cone whose lateral area is 175𝜋 sq. cm. and whose slant height is 25
cm.
10. The slant height of a right circular cone makes with the base an angle of 30 O. If the slant height is 8 cm.
long, find the following
a) Lateral area b) surface area c) volume

11. A semi-circular piece of canvas of radius 8 yards is made into a conical tent. Find the number of cubic
feet of air inside the tent.

12. The volume of a cube of edge 3 inches is equal to the volume of a cone with radius 4 in. Find the height
of the cone.

13. The roof of a tower 80 meters high is in the form of a right circular cone with base diameter of 10
meters. What is the cost of painting the roof if painting costs P80 per square meter.

14. Find the volume of the solid obtained by revolving an equilateral triangle of side 5 cm. about one of its
sides as an axis.
15. A solid metallic cylinder of radius 3 in., and altitude 5in., is melted down and recast as a cone with
radius 2 in. Find the altitude of the cone.

16. A pyramidal tank has a square base of 5.5 ft on a side and a height of 10 ft. What is the volume of
water in the tank when the depth of the water is 7.35 ft?

17. A water tank is in the form of a right circular cone with a base of radius 5 ft and a slant height of 12 ft.
Find the volume of the water when the tank is filled to a depth of 6 ft.

18. A regular pyramid whose height is 120 in. has a base area of 256 sq. in. At what distance from its
vertex must it be cut by a plane parallel to its base so that the area of the base of the new pyramid will
be 64 sq. in.

19. A cone is inscribed in a regular square pyramid. If the pyramid has a slant height of 7 in, and base edge
of 4 in., find the volume of the cone.

20. What is the volume of the largest octagonal pyramid that can be inscribed in a cube of base edge 10.