Length (Customary)
Which is a longer length?
50 inches or 5 feet?
5 feet.
Sarah bought a bag of apples that weighs 3 pounds. How many ounces do the apples weigh?
48 ounces (oz)
A ladybug is 20 millimeters long. How many centimeters long is the ladybug?
2cm
4 kg 740 g = g
4,740 g
15 min = sec
900 seconds
Julia walked 380 feet from her home to her school. Her classmate Santino walked 120 yards from his home to school. Who walked a shorter distance?
Santino walked a shorter distance.
A small pickup truck is carrying 2 tons of gravel. How many pounds of gravel is the truck carrying?
2,000 pounds (lbs)
An Olympic swimming pool is 50 meters long. What is this length in centimeters?
5,000 cm
The mass of the turkey that Ms. Wood bought for Thanksgiving last year was 7 kilograms 450 grams. The mass of the turkey she bought this year had a mass of 5,825 grams. Which turkey was heavier? How much heavier was the larger turkey than the smaller turkey?
The turkey that she bought last year was heavier.
7,450 – 5,825 = 1,625 g = 1 kg 625 g The larger turkey was 1,625 grams or 1 kilogram 625 grams heavier than the smaller turkey.
Write the time in 24 hour time.
10:05 p.m.
22:05
A soccer field is 52 yards wide. Express the width in feet.
156 feet (ft)
Which of the following is greater than 2 pounds?
A) 20 ounces
B) 30 ounces
C) 35 ounces
D) 15 ounces
Which of these measurements is exactly equal to 4.5 meters?
4,500 milimeters
Maya’s empty backpack has a mass of 500 grams. She puts in a textbook that has a mass of 1 kilogram. What is the total mass of the backpack now?
1,500 grams (or 1.5 kg)
A wedding dinner ended at 23 05. The dinner lasted 3 hours 10 minutes. At what time did the dinner start?
The dinner started at 19:55
Four friends are running a relay race.
Maya runs 150 yards.
Leo runs 300 feet.
Who ran the longer distance and by how many feet?
Maya by 150 feet.
A baker needs 80 ounces of flour for a large batch of cookies. If flour is sold in 5-pound bags, does the baker have enough flour in one bag?
Yes. Five pounds is 80 ounces.
A carpenter has a wooden plank that is 3 meters long. He cuts off a piece that is 120 centimeters long. How many centimeters of the plank are left?
180 centimeters
Trinity bought two 2-liter and one 1-liter bottles of juice. She wants to make sure she has enough juice so that she and her 10 friends can each have at least 2 glasses of juice. The capacity of each glass is 240 milliliters. Did Trinity buy enough juice?
5 L 280 mL > 5 L
Trinity did not buy enough juice.
Anna celebrated her birthday on October 12 at 17 45. Her brother celebrated his birthday 18 hours later. Give the date and time of her brother’s birthday celebration.
Her brother celebrated his birthday on October 13 at 11 45.
A hiking trail is 3 miles long. Along the way, there are markers every 880 yards.
Question: How many markers are there from the start of the trail to the very end?
7 markers
3 miles = 5,280 yards. 5280/ 880 = 6 intervals, which means 7 markers including the 0-yard start.
A shipping crate contains three heavy items:
A stone statue weighing 1,200 pounds.
An iron safe weighing half a ton.
A box of lead weights weighing 8,000 ounces.
The delivery truck has a weight limit of exactly 1.5 tons. Is the crate safe to put on the truck?
Yes, the crate is safe! The total weight is 2,700 lbs, which is less than the 3,000 lb limit.
Order these three lengths from shortest to longest.
A = 2,500 mm
B = 240 cm
C = 2.6 m
SHORTEST 240CM
LONGEST 2.6 M
A large water tank contains 12 Liters of water. Because of a small leak, it loses 150 mL of water every hour. How much water (in milliliters) will be left in the tank after 4 hours?
11,400 mL
Axel started on his paper at 9:30am. He took 180 seconds to answer each of the 15 multiple choice questions. He took another 5 minutes to finish to answer each of the 8 short-answer questions. What time did he complete the paper?
He completed the paper at 10:55am