High School Math : Geometry

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Example Questions

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Volume Of A Prism

Find the volume of the following triangular prism:

Triangular_prism

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for the volume of an equilateral, triangular prism is:

Where  is the length of the triangle side and  is the length of the height.

 

Plugging in our values, we get:

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Prism

What is the volume?

Question_5

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The volume is calculated using the equation:

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Prism

A rectangular box has two sides with the following lengths: 

 and

If it possesses a volume of , what is the area of its largest side?

Possible Answers:

28

16

21

12

49

Correct answer:

28

Explanation:

The volume of a rectangular prism is found using the following formula:

If we substitute our known values, then we can solve for the missing side.

Divide both sides of the equation by 12.

We now know that the missing length equals 7 centimeters.

This means that the box can have sides with the following dimensions: 3cm by 4cm; 7cm by 3cm; or 7cm by 4cm. The greatest area of one side belongs to the one that is 7cm by 4cm. 

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Surface Area Of A Cylinder

This figure is a right cylinder with radius of 2 m and a height of 10 m.Cylinder

What is the surface area of the right cylinder (m2)?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

In order to find the surface area of a right cylinder you must find the area of both bases (the circles on either end) and add them to the lateral surface area.  The area of the two circles is easy to find with but remember to multiply by 2 for both bases 

.  

Next find the lateral area.  The lateral area if unrounded would be a rectangle with height of 10 m and length equal to the circumference of the base circles. Thus the lateral area is

 

Now add the lateral area to the area of the two bases:

 

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Surface Area Of A Cylinder

Find the surface area of a cylinder given that its radius is 2 and its height is 3.2.

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The standard equation to find the surface area of a cylinder is

where  denotes the radius and  denotes the height.

Plug in the given values for  and  to find the area of the cylinder:

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Surface Area Of A Cylinder

The base of a cylinder has an area of  and the cylinder has a height of . What is the surface area of this cylinder?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The standard equation for the surface area of a cylinder is

where  denotes radius and  denotes height. We've been given the height in the question, so all we're missing is the radius. However, we are able to find the radius from the area of the circle:

We know the area is 

 so 

Now that we have both  and , we can plug them into the standard equation for the surface area of a cylinder:

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Surface Area Of A Cylinder

Find the surface area of the following cylinder.

Cylinder

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for the surface area of a cylinder is:

where  is the radius of the base and  is the length of the height.

 

Plugging in our values, we get:

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Surface Area Of A Cylinder

Find the surface area of the following cylinder.

Cylinder

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for the surface area of a cylinder is:

Where  is the radius of the cylinder and  is the height of the cylinder

 

Plugging in our values, we get:

Example Question #2 : Cylinders

Find the surface area of the following partial cylinder.

Cylinder_sector

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for the surface area of this partial cylinder is:

Where  is the radius of the cylinder,  is the height of the cylinder, and  is the sector of the cylinder.

 

Plugging in our values, we get:

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Surface Area Of A Cylinder

Find the surface area of the following partial cylinder.

Partial_cylinder

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for the surface area of this partial cylinder is:

where  is the radius of the cylinder,  is the height of the cylinder, and  is the sector of the cylinder.

 

Plugging in our values, we get:

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