Length in Customary Units
How many feet are in 3 yards?
9 feet
How many pounds are in 32 ounces?
2 pounds
True or False: 5,000 cm = 5 m
False
100 cm = 1 m
500 cm = 5 cm
45 kg 913 g = _____ g
45,913 g
How many seconds are in 5 minutes?
300 seconds
If a room is 10 feet long, how many inches long is it?
120 inches
How many cups are in 32 fluid ounces?
4 cups
A race is 3 kilometers long. How many meters is that?
3,000 meters
A watermelon weighs 3 kilograms. If a farmer picks 5 watermelons, what is the total weight in grams?
15,000 grams
How many minutes are in 3 hours?
180 minutes
Thomas finds two sticks. Stick A is 3 feet long. Stick B is 37 inches long. Which stick is longer?
Stick B is longer.
John has 3 pints of milk. He wants to make pudding for dessert. The pudding recipe calls for 6 cups of milk. Does he have enough milk? How much will be left over or how much more will he need?
Yes, he has just enough milk. He will not have any left over.
Which is greater 1 yard or 1 meter?
1 meter
A classroom buys 8 bottles of juice. Each bottle contains 750 milliliters. What is the total volume of juice in liters?
6 liters
A movie lasts 2 hours 45 minutes. If Sarah watches it 3 times in a week, how many minutes did she spend watching the movie?
She spent 495 minutes watching the movie.
Johnathan runs 3 miles everyday after school. Samantha runs 5,285 yards every morning before school. Who runs farther each day? How much farther?
Samantha runs 5 yards farther than Johnathan each day.
Michael has 7 pounds 5 ounces of potatoes. He buys another 5 pounds of potatoes at the store. How many ounces of potatoes does he have in all?
Michael has 197 ounces of potatoes in all.
Leo's jump rope is 2.5 meters long. Henry's jump rope is 275 centimeters long. Whose rope is longer, and by how many centimeters?
Henry's jump rope is 25 cm longer.
A milkshake recipe uses 1.5 liters of milk. If the chef makes 6 milkshakes, how many milliliters of milk are needed in total?
He needs 9,000 milliliters of milk.
William reads 45 minutes every day. How many hours and minutes does he read in 12 days?
He reads 9 hours in 12 days.
Mr. Lopez is making small aprons for a cooking class. Each apron requires 7/10 of a yard of fabric. If he makes 8 aprons, how many yards of fabric does he use in total?
He uses 5 3/5 yards of fabric.
Brady is setting up plastic pools for his dogs. There are 50 pints of water in Pool A and 38 quarts of water in Pool B. Which pool has more water? Explain.
Pool B has more water because 38 quarts is the same as 76 pints and 76 pints is greater than 50 pints.
A tailor needs fabric for three costumes. She used 4.5 meters for the first costume, 2,250 centimeters for the second, and the third costume used 750 centimeters less than the second. What is the total length of fabric used, in meters and centimeters?
She used 42 meters of fabric.
Anna chopped 4 kilograms of carrots. Mia chopped 2,300 grams of carrots. Freddie chopped 650 grams less than Mia. How many kilograms and grams of carrots were chopped in all?
They chopped 7 kg 950 g of carrots.
Nick's flight will begin boarding at 7:00 am. He leaves his house in a taxi at 4:45 am. He rides 20 minutes to the train station. He waits 15 minutes on the train and then he spends 55 minutes on the train. It takes him 5 minutes to walk from the train station to the airport? What time does he get to the airport?
If security takes 25 minutes, will he make it to his gate before boarding begins?
He will get to the airport at 6:20 am.
Yes, he will make it to his gate at 6:45 am.