Metric Conversions
Customary Conversions
Measurement Sense!
Metric Word Problems
Customary Word Problems
100
The mnemonic device to help you remember the labels for the metric "staircase."
What is King Henry Doesn't Usually Drink Chocolate Milk?
100
36 inches = __________ feet.
What is 3 feet?
100
Metric unit you would use to measure the length of your pencil.
What is centimeters?
100
A bottle of laundry detergent comes in 2 sizes -- 4.3 liters and 1,500 ml. Which has more detergent -- one of the 4.3 liter bottles or three of the 1,500 ml bottles?
What is three 1,500 ml bottles?
100
Twins Julia and Emily were just born. Julia weighs 6 pounds 2 ounces and Emily weighs 5 pounds 4 ounces. How many ounces do Julia and Emily weigh together?
What is 182 ounces?
200
6.7 kilometers = ________ decimeters.
What is 67,000 dm?
200
2 gallons = __________ cups.
What is 32 cups?
200
The choice that best represents the height of a 2 story home. 12 centimeters 12 meters 12 kilometers 12 millimeters
What is 12 meters?
200
Mrs. White's bulletin board is 120 cm tall and 2 meters long. How many cm of border would she need to buy to put the border around the edge?
What is 640 cm of border?
200
Apples weigh about 12 ounces each. James bought 4 apples. How many pounds of apples did he buy?
What is 3 pounds?
300
540 centigrams = _________ hectograms.
What is 0.0540 hg?
300
18 feet = ________ yards.
What is 6 yards?
300
The choice that best represents the width of a piece of bread. 10 millimeters 10 meters 10 centimeters 10 kilometers
What is 10 millimeters?
300
A single serving of potato chips is 35 grams. A jumbo bag contains 14 servings. How much would the bag weigh?
What is 490 grams?
300
On her first shot, a golfer hit the ball 167 yards. On her second shot, she hit the ball another 49 feet and made it almost to the hole. On her final shot, the ball went only 7 inches before going in the hole. How far did she hit the ball in all (in inches)?
What is 6,607 inches?
400
2.9 meters = _________ millimeters.
What is 2,900 mm?
400
5 quarts = _________ pints
What is 10 pints
400
The choice that best represents the length of a football. 28 centimeters 28 meters 28 millimeters 28 kilometers
What is 28 centimeters?
400
A warehouse has a rule that boxes can only be stacked 2 meters high. If the boxes are all 14 centimeters high, how many boxes can be stacked without going over 2 meters?
What is 14 boxes?
400
Dan has a bulldog puppy that weighs 10½ pounds. Emily has a black lab puppy that weighs 48 ounces. How much more does Dan's puppy weigh?
What is 7.5 pounds more? (or 120 ounces)
500
645.7 millimeters = ____________ kilometers.
What is 0.0006457 km?
500
4 miles = __________ yards.
What is 7,040 yards?
500
The choice that best represents the height an airplane flies. 10 centimeters 10 meters 10 millimeters 10 kilometers
What is 10 kilometers?
500
A regulation basketball weighs 624 grams. How many kilograms would a box of 12 basketballs weigh?
What is 7.488 kg?
500
A hospital was conducting a blood drive and collected 80 pints of blood from donors. They were hoping to collect 8 gallons of blood. Did they meet their goal? How much more or less than their goal did the hospital collect?
What is yes, and 16 more pints than their target?
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