Chapter 09 Mensuration
9.1 Introduction
We have learnt that for a closed plane figure, the perimeter is the distance around its boundary and its area is the region covered by it. We found the area and perimeter of various plane figures such as triangles, rectangles, circles etc. We have also learnt to find the area of pathways or borders in rectangular shapes.
In this chapter, we will try to solve problems related to perimeter and area of other plane closed figures like quadrilaterals.
We will also learn about surface area and volume of solids such as cube, cuboid and cylinder.
9.2 Area of a Polygon
We split a quadrilateral into triangles and find its area. Similar methods can be used to find the area of a polygon. Observe the following for a pentagon: (Fig 9.1, 9.2)

Fig 9.1
By constructing two diagonals

Fig 9.1
By constructing one diagonal
TRY THESE
(i) Divide the following polygons (Fig 9.3) into parts (triangles and trapezium) to find out its area.

FI is a diagonal of polygon EFGHI

(ii) Polygon
Area of Polygon
Area of
Area of trapezium

Fig 9.4
Area of
(iii) Find the area of polygon MNOPQR (Fig 9.5) if

Fig 9.5
Example 1 : The area of a trapezium shaped field is
Solution: One of the parallel sides of the trapezium is
The given area of trapezium
Hence the other parallel side of the trapezium is
Example 2 : The area of a rhombus is
Solution: Let length of one diagonal
and
So,
Hence the length of the second diagonal is
Example 3 : There is a hexagon MNOPQR of side
Find the area of this hexagon using both ways.

Solution: Aman’s method:
Fig 9.7
Since it is a hexagon so NQ divides the hexagon into two congruent trapeziums. You can verify it by paper folding (Fig 9.8).
Now area of trapezium MNQR

Fig 9.9
So the area of hexagon MNOPQR
Ridhima’s method:
You can verify this by cutting off these two triangles and placing them on one another.
Area of rectangle MOPR
Now, area of hexagon MNOPQR
EXERCISE 9.1
1. The shape of the top surface of a table is a trapezium. Find its area if its parallel sides are

2. The area of a trapezium is

3. Length of the fence of a trapezium shaped field
4. The diagonal of a quadrilateral shaped field is
5. The diagonals of a rhombus are

6. Find the area of a rhombus whose side is
7. The floor of a building consists of 3000 tiles which are rhombus shaped and each of its diagonals are
8. Mohan wants to buy a trapezium shaped field. Its side along the river is parallel to and twice the side along the road. If the area of this field is


9. Top surface of a raised platform is in the shape of a regular octagon as shown in the figure. Find the area of the octagonal surface.
10. There is a pentagonal shaped park as shown in the figure.
For finding its area Jyoti and Kavita divided it in two different ways.

Find the area of this park using both ways. Can you suggest some other way of finding its area?

11. Diagram of the adjacent picture frame has outer dimensions
9.3 Solid Shapes
In your earlier classes you have studied that two dimensional figures can be identified as the faces of three dimensional shapes. Observe the solids which we have discussed so far (Fig 9.10).

Fig 9.10
Observe that some shapes have two or more than two identical (congruent) faces. Name them. Which solid has all congruent faces?
DO THIS
Soaps, toys, pastes, snacks etc. often come in the packing of cuboidal, cubical or cylindrical boxes. Collect, such boxes (Fig 9.11).



Now take one type of box at a time. Cut out all the faces it has. Observe the shape of each face and find the number of faces of the box that are identical by placing them on each other. Write down your observations.

Fig 9.12
(This is a right circular cylinder)
Did you notice the following:
The cylinder has congruent circular faces that are parallel to each other (Fig 9.12). Observe that the line segment joining the center of circular faces is perpendicular to the base. Such cylinders are known as right circular cylinders. We are only going to study this type of cylinders, though there are other types of cylinders as well (Fig 9.13).

Fig 9.13
(This is not a right circular cylinder)
THINK, DISCUSS AND WRITE
Why is it incorrect to call the solid shown here a cylinder?

9.4 Surface Area of Cube, Cuboid and Cylinder
Imran, Monica and Jaspal are painting a cuboidal, cubical and a cylindrical box respectively of same height (Fig 9.4).

They try to determine who has painted more area. Hari suggested that finding the surface area of each box would help them find it out.
To find the total surface area, find the area of each face and then add. The surface area of a solid is the sum of the areas of its faces. To clarify further, we take each shape one by one.
9.4.1 Cuboid
Suppose you cut open a cuboidal box and lay it flat (Fig 9.15). We can see a net as shown below (Fig 9.16).
Write the dimension of each side. You know that a cuboid has three pairs of identical faces. What expression can you use to find the area of each face?
Find the total area of all the faces

Fig 9.16 of the box. We see that the total surface area of a cuboid is area I + area II + area III + area IV +area
So total surface area
Suppose the height, length and width of the box shown above are
TRY THESE
Find the total surface area of the following cuboids (Fig 9.17):
Fig 9.17
- The side walls (the faces excluding the top and bottom) make the lateral surface area of the cuboid. For example, the total area of all the four walls of the cuboidal room in which you are sitting is the lateral surface area of this room (Fig 9.18). Hence, the lateral surface area of a cuboid is given by
or .

DO THIS
(i) Cover the lateral surface of a cuboidal duster (which your teacher uses in the class room) using a strip of brown sheet of paper, such that it just fits around the surface. Remove the paper. Measure the area of the paper. Is it the lateral surface area of the duster?
(ii) Measure length, width and height of your classroom and find
(a) the total surface area of the room, ignoring the area of windows and doors.
(b) the lateral surface area of this room.
(c) the total area of the room which is to be white washed.
THINK, DISCUSS AND WRITE
1. Can we say that the total surface area of cuboid = lateral surface area
2. If we interchange the lengths of the base and the height of a cuboid (Fig 9.19(i)) to get another cuboid (Fig 9.19(ii)), will its lateral surface area change?

(i)
9.4.2 Cube
DO THIS
Draw the pattern shown on a squared paper and cut it out [Fig 9.20(i)]. (You know that this pattern is a net of a cube. Fold it along the lines [Fig 9.20(ii)] and tape the edges to form a cube [Fig 9.20(iii)].

Fig 9.20

(i)

Fig 9.21
(a) What is the length, width and height of the cube? Observe that all the faces of a cube are square in shape. This makes length, height and width of a cube equal (Fig 9.21(i)).
(b) Write the area of each of the faces. Are they equal?
(c) Write the total surface area of this cube.
(d) If each side of the cube is
TRY THESE
Find the surface area of cube A and lateral surface area of cube B (Fig 9.22).
Fig 9.22
THINK, DISCUSS AND WRITE
(i) Two cubes each with side
Fig 9.23
(ii) How will you arrange 12 cubes of equal length to form a cuboid of smallest surface area?
(iii) After the surface area of a cube is painted, the cube is cut into 64 smaller cubes of same dimensions (Fig 9.24).
How many have no face painted? 1 face painted? 2 faces painted? 3 faces painted?

Fig 9.24
9.4.3 Cylinders
Most of the cylinders we observe are right circular cylinders. For example, a tin, round pillars, tube lights, water pipes etc.
DO THIS
(i) Take a cylindrical can or box and trace the base of the can on graph paper and cut it [Fig 9.25(i)]. Take another graph paper in such a way that its width is equal to the height of the can. Wrap the strip around the can such that it just fits around the can (remove the excess paper) [Fig 9.25(ii)].
Tape the pieces [Fig 9.25(iii)] together to form a cylinder [Fig 9.25(iv)]. What is the shape of the paper that goes around the can?

Of course it is rectangular in shape. When you tape the parts of this cylinder together, the length of the rectangular strip is equal to the circumference of the circle. Record the radius
Check if this count is approximately equal to
(ii) We can deduce the relation
Fig 9.26
Note: We take
The lateral (or curved) surface area of a cylinder is
The total surface area of a cylinder
TRY THESE
Find total surface area of the following cylinders (Fig 9.27)

THINK, DISCUSS AND WRITE
Note that lateral surface area of a cylinder is the circumference of base
Example 4 : An aquarium is in the form of a cuboid whose external measures are
Solution: The length of the aquarium
Width of the aquarium
Height of the aquarium
Area of the base
Area of the side face
Area of the back face
Required area
Hence the area of the coloured paper required is
Example 5 : The internal measures of a cuboidal room are
Solution: Let the length of the room
Width of the room
Height of the room
Area of the four walls of the room
Cost of white washing per
Hence the total cost of white washing four walls of the room
Area of ceiling is
Cost of white washing the ceiling
So the total cost of white washing
Example 6 : In a building there are 24 cylindrical pillars. The radius of each pillar is
Solution: Radius of cylindrical pillar,
curved surface area of a cylinder
curved surface area of a pillar
curved surface area of 24 such pillar
Therefore, cost of painting
Example 7 : Find the height of a cylinder whose radius is
Solution: Let height of the cylinder
Total surface area
Hence, the height of the cylinder is
EXERCISE 9.2
1. There are two cuboidal boxes as shown in the adjoining figure. Which box requires the lesser amount of material to make?
2. A suitcase with measures

(a)

(b) a tarpaulin cloth. How many metres of tarpaulin of width
3. Find the side of a cube whose surface area is
4. Rukhsar painted the outside of the cabinet of measure

5. Daniel is painting the walls and ceiling of a cuboidal hall with length, breadth and height of
How many cans of paint will she need to paint the room?
6. Describe how the two figures at the right are alike and how they are different. Which box has larger lateral surface area?
7. A closed cylindrical tank of radius
8. The lateral surface area of a hollow cylinder is
9. A road roller takes 750 complete revolutions to move once over to level a road. Find the area of the road if the diameter of a road roller is
10. A company packages its milk powder in cylindrical container whose base has a diameter of
9.5 Volume of Cube, Cuboid and Cylinder
Amount of space occupied by a three dimensional object is called its volume. Try to compare the volume of objects surrounding you. For example, volume of a room is greater than the volume of an almirah kept inside it. Similarly, volume of your pencil box is greater than the volume of the pen and the eraser kept inside it.
Can you measure volume of either of these objects?
Remember, we use square units to find the area of a region. Here we will use cubic units to find the volume of a solid, as cube is the most convenient solid shape (just as square is the most convenient shape to measure area of a region).
For finding the area we divide the region into square units, similarly, to find the volume of a solid we need to divide it into cubical units.
Observe that the volume of each of the adjoining solids is 8 cubic units (Fig 9.28).
We can say that the volume of a solid is measured by
Fig 9.28 counting the number of unit cubes it contains. Cubic units which we generally use to measure volume are
We now find some expressions to find volume of a cuboid, cube and cylinder. Let us take each solid one by one.
9.5.1 Cuboid
Take 36 cubes of equal size (i.e., length of each cube is same). Arrange them to form a cuboid. You can arrange them in many ways. Observe the following table and fill in the blanks.


What do you observe?
Since we have used 36 cubes to form these cuboids, volume of each cuboid is 36 cubic units. Also volume of each cuboid is equal to the product of length, breadth and height of the cuboid. From the above example we can say volume of cuboid
Volume of cuboid
DO THIS
Take a sheet of paper. Measure its area. Pile up such sheets of paper of same size to make a cuboid (Fig 9.29). Measure the height of this pile. Find the volume of the cuboid by finding the product of the area of the sheet and the height of this pile of sheets.
This activity illustrates the idea that volume of a solid can be deduced by this method also (if the base and top of the solid are congruent and parallel to each other and its edges are perpendicular to the base). Can you think of such objects whose volume can be found by using this method?
TRY THESE
Find the volume of the following cuboids (Fig 9.30).
(i)


Fig 9.29
9.5.2 Cube
The cube is a special case of a cuboid, where
Hence, volume of cube
TRY THESE
Find the volume of the following cubes
(a) with a side
DO THIS
Arrange 64 cubes of equal size in as many ways as you can to form a cuboid. Find the surface area of each arrangement. Can solid shapes of same volume have same surface area?
THINK, DISCUSS AND WRITE
A company sells biscuits. For packing purpose they are using cuboidal boxes: box
9.5.3 Cylinder
We know that volume of a cuboid can be found by finding the product of area of base and its height. Can we find the volume of a cylinder in the same way?
Just like cuboid, cylinder has got a top and a base which are congruent and parallel to each other. Its lateral surface is also
perpendicular to the base, just like cuboid.
So
Volume of cylinder

TRY THESE
Find the volume of the following cylinders.

9.6 Volume and Capacity
There is not much difference between these two words.
(a) Volume refers to the amount of space occupied by an object.
(b) Capacity refers to the quantity that a container holds.
Note: If a water tin holds
Capacity is also measured in terms of litres. The relation between litre and
Example 8 : Find the height of a cuboid whose volume is
Solution:
Height of the cuboid is
Example 9 : A godown is in the form of a cuboid of measures
Solution:
Number of boxes that can be stored in the godown
Hence the number of cuboidal boxes that can be stored in the godown is 90,000 .
Example 10 : A rectangular paper of width
Solution: A cylinder is formed by rolling a rectangle about its width. Hence the width of the paper becomes height and radius of the cylinder is
Fig 9.31
Height of the cylinder
Radius
Volume of the cylinder
Hence, the volume of the cylinder is
Example 11 : A rectangular piece of paper
Solution: Length of the paper becomes the perimeter of the base of the cylinder and width becomes height.
Let radius of the cylinder
Perimeter of the base of the cylinder
or
Volume of the cylinder
Hence the volume of the cylinder is
EXERCISE 9.3
1. Given a cylindrical tank, in which situation will you find surface area and in which situation volume.
(a) To find how much it can hold.
(b) Number of cement bags required to plaster it.
(c) To find the number of smaller tanks that can be filled with water from it.

2. Diameter of cylinder A is
3. Find the height of a cuboid whose base area is

4. A cuboid is of dimensions
5. Find the height of the cylinder whose volume is
6. A milk tank is in the form of cylinder whose radius is
7. If each edge of a cube is doubled,
(i) how many times will its surface area increase?
(ii) how many times will its volume increase?

8. Water is pouring into a cubiodal reservoir at the rate of 60 litres per minute. If the volume of reservoir is

WHAT HAVE WE DISCUSSED??
1. Surface area of a solid is the sum of the areas of its faces.
2. Surface area of
a cuboid
a cube
a cylinder
3. Amount of region occupied by a solid is called its volume.
4. Volume of
a cuboid
a cube
a cylinder
5. (i)
(ii)
(iii)