54 Mathematics Chapter-wise Previous Years' Questions (Class-10)

20. In figure, a tent is in the shape of a cylinder 25. A wooden article was made by scooping out a
surmounted by a conical top of same diameter. hemisphere from each end of a solid cylinder, as
If the height and diameter of cylindrical part are shown in figure. If the height of the cylinder is 10
2.1 m and 3 m respectively and the slant height cm and its base is of radius 3.5 cm. Find the
of conical part is 2.8 m, find the cost of canvas total surface area of the article. [2018] ...[3M]
needed to make the tent if the canvas is
available at the rate of ` 500/sq. metre.
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26. A heap of rice is in the form of a cone of base

diameter 24 m and height 3.5 m. Find the
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volume of the rice. How much canvas cloth is
required to just cover the heap? [2018] ...[3M]

27. Water in a canal, 6 m wide and 1.5 m deep, is

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area will it irrigate in 30 minutes; if 8 cm
standing water is needed? [2019] ...[3M]
21. A conical vessel, with base radius 5 cm and
height 24 cm, is full of water. This water is 28. Figure shows a decorative block which is made
emptied into a cylindrical vessel of base radius of two solids – a cube and a hemisphere. The
10 cm. Find the height to which the water will base of the block is a cube with edge 5 cm
and the hemisphere, fixed on the top, has a
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diameter of 4.2 cm. Find the total 2 surface area
rise in the cylindrical vessel. # "#$ $
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of the block. !#"#$%
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[2016] ...[3M] [2009] ...[4M]
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22. A sphere of diameter 12 cm, is dropped in a right
circular cylindrical vessel, partly filled with water.
If the sphere is completely submerged in water,
the water level in the cylindrical vessel rises by
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" cm. Find the diameter of the cylindrical
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vessel. [2016] ...[3M]

23. In a canal, 5.4 m wide and 1.8 m deep, water

is flowing with a speed of 25 km/hr. How much
area can it irrigate in 40 minutes, if 10 cm of
standing water is required for irrigation?
[2017] ...[3M]
24. The dimensions of a solid iron cuboid are 4.4 m
× 2.6 m × 1.0 m. It is melted and recast into a
hollow cylindrical pipe of 30 cm inner radius and
thickness 5 cm. Find the length of the pipe.
[2017] ...[3M]
29. Water is flowing through a cylindrical pipe, of
internal diameter 2 cm, into a cylindrical tank of
base radius 40 cm, at the rate of 0.4 m/s.
Determine the rise in level of water in the tank
in half an hour. [2013] ...[4M]
30. A bucket open at the top, and made up of a
metal sheet is in the form of a frustum of a
cone. The depth of the bucket is 24 cm and the
diameters of its upper and lower circular ends
are 30 cm and 10 cm respectively. Find the cost

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