CAT Mensuration questions (1993–2024) — actual Quant questions with solutions

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ABCD is a rectangle with sides AB = 56 cm and BC = 45 cm, and E is the midpoint of side CD. Then, the length, in cm, of radius of incircle of ∆ADE is

The surface area of a closed rectangular box, which is inscribed in a sphere, is 846 sq cm, and the sum of the lengths of all its edges is 144 cm. The volume, in cubic cm, of the sphere is

CAT 2021 QA Slot 1 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

If the area of a regular hexagon is equal to the area of an equilateral triangle of side 12 cm, then the length in cm of each side of the hexagon is

CAT 2020 QA Slot 1 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

On a rectangular metal sheet of area 135 sq in, a circle is painted such that the circle touches two opposite sides. If the area of the sheet left unpainted is two-thirds of the painted area then the perimeter of the rectangle in inches is

CAT 2020 QA Slot 1 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A solid right circular cone of height 27 cm is cut into two pieces along a plane parallel to its base at a height of 18 cm from the base. If the difference in volume of the two pieces is 225 cc, the volume, in cc, of the original cone is

CAT 2019 QA Slot 2 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

The base of a regular pyramid is a square and each of the other four sides is an equilateral triangle, length of each side being 20 cm. The vertica height of the pyramid, in cm, is

CAT 2019 QA Slot 2 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A man makes complete use of 405 cc of iron, 783 cc of aluminium, and 351 cc of copper to make a number of solid right circular cylinders of each typ of metal. These cylinders have the same volume and each of these has radius 3 cm. If the total number of cylinders is to be kept at a minimum, the the total surface area of all these cylinders, in sq cm, is

CAT 2019 QA Slot 1 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

If the rectangular faces of a brick have their diagonals in the ratio 3 : 2√3 : √15, then the ratio of the length of the shortest edge of the brick to that o its longest edge is?

CAT 2018 QA Slot 2 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

From a rectangle ABCD of area 768 sqcm, a semicircular part with diameter AB and area 72π sqcm is removed. The perimeter of the leftover portion, i cm, is:

CAT 2018 QA Slot 1 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A right circular cone, of height 12 ft, stands on its base which has diameter 8 ft. The tip of the cone is cut off with a plane which is parallel to the bas and 9 ft from the base. With π = 22/7, the volume, in cubic ft, of the remaining part of the cone is

CAT 2017 QA Slot 2 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

The base of a vertical pillar with uniform cross section is a trapezium whose parallel sides are of lengths 10 cm and 20 cm while the other two sides ar equal in length. The perpendicular distance between the parallel sides of the trapezium is 12 cm. If the height of the pillar is 20 cm, then the total area in sq cm, of all six surfaces of the pillar is

CAT 2017 QA Slot 2 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

If three sides of a rectangular park have a total length 400 ft, then the area of the park is maximum when the length (in ft) of its longer side is

CAT 2017 QA Slot 1 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A solid metallic cube is melted to form five solid cubes whose volumes are in the ratio 1 : 1 : 8 : 27 : 27. The percentage by which the sum of th surface areas of these five cubes exceeds the surface area of the original cube is nearest to:

CAT 2017 QA Slot 1 | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A ball of diameter 4 cm is kept on top of a hollow cylinder standing vertically. The height of the cylinder is 3 cm, while its volume is 9π cm3. Then th vertical distance, in cm, of the topmost point of the ball from the base of the cylinder is:

CAT 2008 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Consider a right circular cone of base radius 4 cm and height 10 cm. A cylinder is to be placed inside the cone with one of the flat surface resting o the base of the cone. Find the largest possible total surface area (in sq. cm) of the cylinder.

CAT 2007 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Each question is followed by two statements A and B. Answer each question using the following instructions. Mark (1) if the question can be answered by using statement A alone but not by using statement B alone. Mark (2) if the question can be answered by using statement B alone but not by using statement A alone. Mark (3) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but not by using either of the statements alone. Mark (4) if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements. ABC Corporation is required to maintain at least 400 Kilolitres of water at all times in its factory, in order to meet safety and regulatory requirement ABC is considering the suitability of a spherical tank with uniform wall thickness for the purpose. The outer diameter of the tank is 10 meters. Is th tank capacity adequate to meet ABC’s requirements? A. The inner diameter of the tank is at least 8 meters. B. The tank weighs 30,000 kg when empty, and is made of a material with density of 3 gm/cc.

CAT 2006 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

The length, breadth and height of a room are in the ratio 3 : 2 : 1. If the breadth and height are halved while the length is doubled, then the total are of the four walls of the room will

CAT 2006 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

The proportion of the sheet area that remains after punching is:

CAT 2006 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Find the area of the part of the circle (round punch) falling outside the square sheet.

CAT 2005 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A jogging park has two identical circular tracks touching each other, and a rectangular track enclosing the two circles. The edges of the rectangles ar tangential to the circles. Two friends, A and B, start jogging simultaneously from the point where one of the circular tracks touches the smaller side o the rectangular track. A jogs along the rectangular track, while B jogs along the two circular tracks in a figure of eight. Approximately, how much faste than A does B have to run, so that they take the same time to return to their starting point?

CAT 2005 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Rectangular tiles each of size 70 cm by 30 cm must be laid horizontally on a rectangular floor of size 110 cm by 130 cm, such that the tiles do no overlap. A tile can be placed in any orientation so long as its edges are parallel to the edges of the floor. No tile should overshoot any edge of th floor. The maximum number of tiles that can be accommodated on the floor is

CAT 2005 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A rectangular floor is fully covered with square tiles of identical size. The tiles on the edges are white and the tiles in the interior are red. The number o white tiles is the same as the number of red tiles. A possible value of the number of tiles along one edge of the floor is

CAT 2004 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A rectangular sheet of paper, when halved by folding it at the mid-point of its longer side, results in a rectangle, whose longer and shorter sides are i the same proportion as the longer and shorter sides of the original rectangle. If the shorter side of the original rectangle is 2, what is the area of th smaller rectangle?

CAT 2004 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

If the lengths of diagonals DF, AG and CE of the cube shown in the adjoining figure are equal to the three sides of a triangle, then the radius of the circle circumscribing that triangle will be .

CAT 2003 QA - Leaked | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Let A and B be two solid spheres such that the surface area of B is 300% higher than the surface area of A. The volume of A is found to be k% lowe than the volume of B. The value of k must be

CAT 2003 QA - Leaked | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

There are 8436 steel balls, each with a radius of 1 centimeter, stacked in a pile, with 1 ball on top, 3 balls in the second layer, 6 in the third layer, 10 i the fourth, and so on. The number of horizontal layers in the pile is

CAT 2003 QA - Retake | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

What is the vertical spacing in cms between two consecutive turns?

CAT 2003 QA - Retake | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

The same string, when wound on the exterior four walls of a cube of side n cms, starting at point C and ending at point D, can give exactly one tur (see figure, not drawn to scale). The length of the string, in cms, is

CAT 2003 QA - Retake | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

In the setup of the previous two questions, how is h related to n?

CAT 2003 QA - Retake | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Consider two different cloth-cutting processes. In the first one, n circular cloth pieces are cut from a square cloth piece of side a in the following step the original square of side a is divided into n smaller squares, not necessarily of the same size; then a circle of maximum possible area is cut from eac of the smaller squares. In the second process, only one circle of maximum possible area is cut from the square of side a and the process ends there The cloth pieces remaining after cutting the circles are scrapped in both the processes. The ratio of the total area of scrap cloth generated in th former to that in the latter is:

CAT 2002 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

In order to cover less distance, a boy − rather than going along the longer and the shorter lengths of the rectangular path, goes by the diagonal. Th boy finds that he saved a distance equal to half the longer side. The ratio of the breadth and length is

CAT 2002 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Neeraj has a rectangular field of size 20 × 40 sq.m. He has to mow the field with a mowing machine of width 1 m. If he mows the field from th extremes to the centre, then the number of rounds taken by him to mow half of the field will be

CAT 2002 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

On the corners of a square field of side 14 metres, 4 horses are tethered in such a way the adjacent horses just reach each other. There is a circula pond of area 20 sq.m. in the centre of the square. What is the area left ungrazed?

CAT 2002 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

The magnitude of ∠FGO =

CAT 2002 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

The ratio of the areas of the two quadrangles ABCD and DEFG is

CAT 2001 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A square, whose side is 2 meters, has its corners cut away so as to form an octagon with all sides equal. Then the length of each side of the octagon, i meters is

CAT 2001 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Two sides of a plot measure 32 metres and 24 metres and the angle between them is a perfect right angle. The other two sides measure 25 metre each and the other three are not right angles. What is the area of the plot?

CAT 2001 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A rectangular pool 20 metres wide and 60 metres long is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. If the total area of the walkway is 516 squar metres, how wide, in metres, is the walkway?

CAT 2000 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Two full tanks, one shaped like a cylinder and the other like a cone, contain jet fuel. The cylindrical tank holds 500 litres more than the conical tank After 200 litres of fuel has been pumped out from each tank the cylindrical tank contains twice the amount of fuel in the conical tank. How many litre of fuel did the cylindrical tank have when it was full?

CAT 2000 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A farmer has decided to build a wire fence along one straight side of his property. For this, he planned to place several fence-posts at six metr intervals, with posts fixed at both ends of the side. After he bought the posts and wire, he found that the number of posts he had bought was five les than required. However, he discovered that the number of posts he had bought would be just sufficient if he spaced them eight metres apart. What i the length of the side of his property and how many posts did he buy?

CAT 1999 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

There is a square field of side 500 m long each. It has a compound wall along its perimeter. At onec of its corners, a triangular area of the field is to b cordoned off by erecting a straight-line fence. The compound wall and the fence will form its borders. If the length of the fence is 100 m, what i the maximum area that can be cordoned off?

CAT 1999 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

Directions: Each question is followed by two statements I and II. Mark: if the question can be answered by any one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by using the other statement alone. if the question can be answered by using either statement alone. if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone. if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together. A small storage tank is spherical in shape. What is the storage volume of the tank? I. The wall thickness of the tank is 1 cm. II. When an empty spherical tank is immersed in a large tank filled with water, 20 l of water overflow from the large tank.

CAT 1998 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

What is the area that can be grazed by the cow if the length of the rope is 8 m?

CAT 1998 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

What is the area that can be grazed by the cow if the length of the rope is 12 m?

CAT 1996 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

From a circular sheet of paper with a radius 20 cm, four circles of radius 5 cm each are cut out. What is the ratio of the uncut to the cut portion?

CAT 1996 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A wooden box (open at the top) of thickness 0.5 cm, length 21 cm, width 11 cm and height 6 cm is painted on the inside. The expenses of painting ar Rs. 70. What is the rate of painting per square centimeters?

CAT 1994 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A right circular cone, a right circular cylinder and a hemisphere, all have the same radius, and the heights of the cone and cylinder equal to thei diameters. Then their volumes are proportional, respectively to

CAT 1994 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A right circular cone of height h is cut by a plane parallel to the base and at a distance h/3 from the base, then the volumes of the resulting cone an the frustum are in the ratio

CAT 1993 QA | Geometry - Mensuration CAT Question

A slab of ice 8 inches in length, 11 inches in breadth, and 2 inches thick was melted and resolidified into the form of a rod of 8 inches diameter. Th length of such a rod, in inches, is nearest to