ME BOARD EXAMINATION TRAINING SESSIONS 1 11. The length of the side of a square is increased by 100%.

The
PROBLEM SET 03 perimeter is increased by

1. How many gallons are there in 10 cubic meters of liquid? A. 25% C. 200%
B. 100% D. 150%
A. 748 gal C. 2641.7 gal
B. 74.80 gal D. 7.480 gal 12. If the edge of the cube is increased by 20%, find the
percentage increase in volume.
2. How many sides are there if a polygon has 54 diagonals?
A. 72.8% C. 76.3 %
A. 18 C. 10
B. 83.2% D. 63.3%
B. 15 D. 12
13. The interior angles of a polygon are in arithmetic
3. A regular hexagon with an area of 93.53 square
progression. The least angle is 120° and the common difference
centimeters is inscribed in a circle. The area in the circle
is 5°. Find the number of sides.
not covered by the hexagon is:
A. 8 C. 11
A. 18.38 cm2 C.16.72 cm2
B. 9 D. 10
B. 19.57 cm2 D. 15.68 cm2
14. A circle of radius 10 cm is inscribed in a regular hexagon.
4. A polygon has 170 diagonals. Compute the number of sides?
Find the area of the hexagon
A. 20 C. 18
A. 346.41 C. 132.32
B. 25 D. 26
B. 432.32 D. 234.32
5. The volume of a regular pyramid whose base area is a regular
15. How many diagonals are there in a dodecagon?
hexagon is 156 cm3. If the altitude of the pyramid is 5 cm,
determine the length of the sides of the base. A. 27 C. 54
A. 4 cm C. 3 cm B. 20 D. 30
B. 5 cm D. 6 cm
16. A cubical container measuring 50.8 mm on a side is
6. What is the distance between two points of a sphere is the tightly packed with eight marbles. The container is filled
smaller arc of the great circle between them? with water. All eight marbles are in contact with the walls
of the container and the adjacent marbles. Considering
A. spherical arc C. spherical distance
that the marbles are of the same size, compute the
B. spherical polygon D. spherical angle
volume of water in the container.
7. The lengths of two corresponding sides of two similar
polygons are 4 and 7. If the perimeter of the smaller polygon is A. 62,454.54 C. 68,641.97
20, find the perimeter of the larger polygon B. 45,312.34 D. 131,096

A. 20 C. 10 17. In a circle with a diameter of 10 m, a regular five-

B. 35 D. 15 pointed star touching its circumference is inscribed. What
8. The bases of a right prism are a hexagon with one side 6 cm
is the area of the part not covered by the star?
long. If the volume of the prism is 450 cm3, how far are the A. 60.2 m2 C. 50.48 m2
bases?
B. 45.24 m2 D. 71.28 m2
A. 4.81 cm C. 5.32 cm
18. The volume of a sphere is 36n cm3. Determine the
B. 4.22 cm D. 5.06 cm
surface area of the sphere.
9. Polyhedrons are classified according to their ____.
A. 36pi C. 24pi
A. bases C. faces B. 28pi D. 30pi
B. sides D. vertices
19. Find the area of the spherical lune whose angle is 75°
10. The volume of a right circular cone is equal to one-third the
on a sphere of radius 30 cm.
product of its base by its altitude
A. 2356.19 cm2 C. 2054.34 cm2
A. axiom C. theorem
B. postulate D. corollary
B. 2052.52 cm2 D. 2257.26 cm2
20. A room is 12 ft wide, 15 ft long, and 8 ft high. If an air A. 1086.69 cm2 C. 1204.23 cm2
conditioner changes the air once every five minutes, how B. 1042.52 cm2 D. 1102.62 cm2
many cubic feet of air does it change per hour?
29. Find the total surface area of a regular triangular
A. 17,280 C. 14,522 pyramid if each edge of the base measures 6 inches and
B. 19,553 D. 16,733 each lateral edge of the pyramid measures 5 inches.

21. What is the spherical excess of the spherical polygon A. 51.59 in2 C. 54.42 in2
of four sides whose angles are 95°, 112°, 134° and 78°. B. 50.23 in2 D. 50.21 in2

A. 60° C. 67° 30. Find the length of the side of a regular pentagon
B. 54° D. 59° inscribed in a circle of radius 10 cm.

22. Three spheres of radii 10, 20 and 30 cm respectively, A. 10.34 cm C. 12.42 cm

are melted and formed into a single sphere. Find the B. 11.76 cm D. 35.22 cm
volume of the single sphere.
31. The area of a zone of a spherical segment is 1/4 that of
A. 48,000pi C. 50,000pi a sphere. What is the ratio of the radius to the altitude of
the spherical zone?
B. 45,000pi D. 42,000pi
A. 3:1 C. 2:3
23. A polygon has 170 diagonals. How many sides does it
B. 2:1 D. 3:4
have?
32. The portion of a sphere included between two parallel
A. 20 C. 25 planes.
B. 30 D. 28
A. spherical wedge C. spherical segment
24. What is the volume of a right circular cylinder B. spherical pyramid D. spherical sector
inscribed in a cube of edge 10 cm?
33. The volume of two spheres is in the ratio of 27:343 and the
A. 200pi C. 220pi sum of their radii is 10. Find the radius of the smaller sphere.

B. 250pi D. 210pi A. 7 C. 5
B. 3 D. 7
25. A rhombus is formed by two radii and two chords of a
34. The portion of a sphere bounded by a spherical polygon and
circle of diameter 20 units. What is the area of the
the planes of its sides.
rhombus?
A. spherical wedge C. spherical pyramid
A. 56.78 C. 86.60 B. spherical segment D. spherical sector
B. 45.76 D. 221.70
35. A sphere of radius 10 m and a right circular cone of base
26. Calculate the volume of a tetrahedron of 10 inches in radius 10 m and height 15 m stands on a table. At what height
its sides. from the table should the two solids be cut in order to have
equal circular sections?
A. 131.35 C. 117.85
B. 124.30 D. 115.49 A. 3.14 m C. 3.44 m
B. 3.24 m D. 3.54 m
27. Find the length of the side of a pentagon if the line
perpendicular to its side is 12 units from the center. 36. The area of a zone of a spherical segment is 180n sq.m. and
has a volume of 468pi cu.m. Find the volume of the sphere.
A. 14.74 units C. 71.44 units
A. 4000pi C. 4800pi
B. 17.44 units D. 14.47 units
B. 4500pi D. 4200pi
28. The circumference of the base of a right circular 37. A regular octagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 10 inches.
cylinder is 48 cm and its altitude is 15 cm. Determine its Find the area of the octagon.
total surface area.
A. 282.8 C. 302.2
B. 265.5 D. 294.8
38. The Great Pyramid of Egypt has a square base 232 m on a 47. A goat is tied to a corner of a 30 ft by 35 ft building. If
side and 147 m high. Find its volume. the rope is 40 ft long and the goat can reach 1 ft farther
A. 2,768,334 m3 C. 2,632,242 m3 than the rope length, what is the maximum area the goat
B. 2,662,351 m3 D. 2,637,376 m3 can cover?

39. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 540°. Find the A. 4840.07 C. 8044.07
number of sides. B. 4804.07 D. 4084.07
A. 4 C. 5 48. A tetrahedron is a regular solid with equilateral
B. 6 D. 7 triangles for each of the three surfaces. If each side is 10
40. The bases of a right prism are regular hexagons with each cm, what is the volume of the tetrahedron?
side equal to 6 cm. The bases are 10 cm apart. What is the
A. 116.21 cu. cm C. 91.67 cu. Cm
volume of the prism?
B. 117.85 cu. cm D. 83.33 cu. cm
A. 935.31 C. 783.22
B. 943.57 D. 893.73
49. The area of a spherical lune is 90 cm2. If the area of
the sphere is 810 cm2, what is the angle subtended by the
41. How many diagonals does a pentedecagon have: lune?
A. 60 C.70 A. 45° C. 48°
B. 80 D. 90
B. 40° D.42°
42. A pyramid with a square base has an altitude of 25 cm.
50. The diameter of a sphere and the base of a cone are
If the edge of the base is 15 cm. Calculate the volume of
equal. What approximate percentage of that diameter
the pyramid.
must the cone's height be so that both volumes are
A. 1785 cm3 C. 1875 cm3 equal?
B. 5178 cm3 D. 5871 cm3
A.133% C. 166 %
43. What is the measure of the interior angle of a regular 2000- B.150% D. 200 %
gon?

A. 180° C. 200°
B. 220° D. 178°

44. A regular pentagon has sides of 20 cm. An inner pentagon

with sides of 10 cm is inside and concentric to the larger
pentagon. Determine the area inside and concentric to the
larger pentagon but outside of the smaller pentagon.

A. 430.70 C. 573.26
B. 473.77 D. 516.14

45. A trapezoid has its 2 bases in meters in a ratio of 4:5

with an altitude of 20 meters. If the trapezoid has an area
of 360 m2, find the two bases.

A. 20, 25 C. 12, 15
B. 20, 16 D. 24, 30

46. The volume of water in a spherical tank having a

diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m3. Determine the depth of the
water in the tank.

A. 1.6 C. 1.4
B. 1.2 D. 1.0