Measurement Conversions
Convert 3 feet to inches.
Answer: 36 inches
What unit would you use to measure the length of a pencil?
Answer: centimeters
Find the area of a rectangle with length 6 and width 4.
Answer: 24 square units
A line plot shows 3 x's at 1/2. What is the total if you add them?
Answer: 1 1/2
A rope is 5 feet long. How long is it in inches?
Answer: 60 inches
Convert 2 meters to centimeters.
Answer: 200 cm
Which unit would be best for measuring the distance from your school to a community park?
A. meters B. kilometers C. centimeters
Answer: B. kilometers
Explanation: Long distances use larger units
Find the perimeter of a rectangle with length 8 and width 3.
Answer: 22 units
There are 2 points at 1/4 and 2 points at 3/4. What is the total?
Answer: 2 wholes
A rectangle is 9 units long and 2 units wide. What is the area?
Answer: 18 square units
Convert 5 kilometers to meters.
Answer: 5,000 meters
What unit would you use to measure the distance between two cities?
Answer: kilometers or miles
A rectangular garden has an area of 72 square feet. If the width is 8 feet, what is the length?
Answer: 9 feet
If one data point is removed from 1/2, how does the total change?
Answer: decreases by 1/2.
A runner jogs 2 kilometers each day for 3 days. How far total?
Answer: 6 kilometers
Convert 48 inches to feet.
Answer: 4 feet
What metric unit would you use to measure how much water is in a bottle?
Answer: milliliters or liters
The perimeter of a rectangular playground is 48 meters. If the length is 14 meters, what is the width?
10 meters
A line plot shows: 1/2, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4. What is the total?
Answer: 1 1/2
A bowling ball weighs 7 kilograms. How many grams is that?
Answer: 7,000 g
Convert 3 miles 440 yards to yards. (1 mile = 1,760 yards)
Answer: 5,720 yards
Explanation:
3 miles = 5,280 yards (3 × 1,760)
5,280 + 440 = 5,720 yards
What customary unit would you use to measure the weight of a paperclip?
Answer: grams
A rectangle has an area of 96 square units and a length of 12 units. What is the width?
Then find the perimeter.
Answer: Width = 8 units
Perimeter = 40 units
A line plot has 3 values of 1/3 and 3 values of 2/3. What is the total?
Answer: 3 wholes
A garden has a perimeter of 20 feet. If the length is 6 feet, what is the width?
Answer: 4 feet