Chapter 4 Exploring Some Geometric Themes (Class 8 - Latest Maths NCERT (Ganita Prakash II) Solutions)

Question 1. Draw the initial few steps (at least till Step $2$) of the shape sequence that leads to the Sierpinski Triangle.

Question 2. Find the number of holes, and the triangles that remain at each step of the shape sequence that leads to the Sierpinski Triangle.

Question 3. Find the area of the region remaining at the $n$th step in each of the shape sequences that lead to the Sierpinski fractals. Take the area of the starting square/triangle to be $1$ sq. unit.

Question 1. Draw the initial few steps (at least till Step $2$) of the shape sequence that leads to the Koch Snowflake.

Question 2. Find the number of sides in the $n$th step of the shape sequence that leads to the Koch Snowflake.

Question 3. Find the perimeter of the shape at the $n$th step of the sequence. Take the starting equilateral triangle to have a sidelength of $1$ unit.

Question 1. Which of the following are the nets of a cube? First, try to answer by visualisation. Then, you may use cutouts and try.

Question 2. A cube has $11$ possible net structures in total. In this count, two nets are considered the same if one can be obtained from the other by a rotation or a flip. For example, the following nets are all considered the same —

Find all the $11$ nets of a cube.

Question 3. Draw a net of a cuboid having sidelengths:

(i) $5$ cm, $3$ cm, and $1$ cm

(ii) $6$ cm, $3$ cm, and $2$ cm

Question 1. Observe the front view, top view and side view of the different lines in Fig. 4.6. Is there any relation between their lengths?

Question 2. Find the front view, top view and side view of each of the following solids, fixing its orientation with respect to the vertical, horizontal and side planes: cube, cuboid, parallelepiped, cylinder, cone, prism, and pyramid. If needed, see the next problem for clues.

Question 3. Match each of the following objects with its projections.

Question 1. Draw the top view, front view and the side view of each of the following combinations of identical cubes.

Question 2. Imagine $8$ identical cubes, glued together along faces to form the letter ‘ ’.

(i) This looks like a ‘ ’ from the front. What does it look like from the side? From the top?

(ii) Glue additional cubes to make a shape that looks like ‘ ’ from the front and ‘ ’ from the top.

(iii) Now, can you glue even more cubes to make it look like ‘ ’ from the front, ‘ ’ from the top, and ‘ ’ from the side?

(iv) Can you think of other letter combinations to make with a single combination of cubes in this manner?

Question 3. Which solid corresponds to the given top view, front view, and side view?

Question 4. Using identical cubes, make a solid that gives the following projections.

Question 5. Find the number of cubes in this stack of identical cubes.

Question 6. What are the different shapes the projection of a cube can make under different orientations?

Question 1. In addition to the $5$ ways shown in Fig. $4.8$, are there any additional ways of gluing $4$ cubes together along faces? Can you visualise and draw these as well?

Question 2. Draw the following figures on the isometric grid.

[Hint: It may be useful to determine whether the edge to be currently drawn — say, along the height — goes from down to up or up to down. Accordingly, draw the line segment on the grid either in the direction of the height axis or opposite to it.]

Question 3. Is there anything strange about the path of this ball? Recreate it on the isometric grid.

[Hint: Consider a portion of this figure that is physically realisable and identify the $3$ primary directions.]

Question 4. Observe this triangle.

(i) Would it be possible to build a model out of actual cubes? What are the front, top, and side profiles of this impossible triangle?

(ii) Recreate this on an isometric grid.

(iii) Why does the illusion work?