Metric Magic
A water bottle holds 2 litres (L) of water. How many milliletres (mL) of water does it hold?
2,000 milliletres (mL)
A car travels at a speed of 60 kilometres (km) per hour. How many kilometres (km) does it travel in one minute?
1 kilometre (km)
A rectangular classroom is 12 metres (m) long and 9 metres wide (m). What is the total area of the classroom?
108m2
A track athlete ran a 5 kilometre (km) race. After the first 10 minutes, they had completed 2,400 metres (m). How many kilometres (km) do they have left to run?
2.6 kilometres (km)
A scientist is filling a tank that holds 10 litres (L). If their tap pours 500 millilitres (mL) of water every second, how many seconds will it take to fill the tank?
20 seconds
A square garden has a side length of 15 metres (m). What is the area of the garden?
225 metres squared (m2)
A paperclip has a mass of 1 gram (g). How many paperclips would you need to equal the mass of a 5 kilogram (kg) bowling ball?
5,000 paperclips
A rectangular rug has an area of 12 square metres (m2). If the rug is 300 centimetres (cm) wide, how many metres (m) long is it?
4 metres (m)
A rectangular field has an area of 800 square metres (m2). If the length of the field is 40 metres (m), what is its width?
20 metres (m)
A race track is 400 metres (m) long. If a runner completes 20 laps, how many kilometres (km) did they run?
8 kilometres (km)
A wooden board is 6 metres (m) long. A carpenter needs to cut it into smaller pieces that are each 12 centimetres (cm) long. How many total pieces can they cut?
50 pieces
A triangle has an area of 50 square metres (m2). If its base is 20 metres (m), what is its height?
5 metres (m)
A medicine bottle contains 4 grams (g) of powder. If each dose is 500 milligrams (mg), how many total doses are in the bottle?
8 doses
A rectangular playground has an area of 1,500 square metres (m2). If the length of the playground is 5,000 centimetres (cm), what is the width in metres (m)?
30 metres (m)
A large square piece of paper has sides of 20 centimetres (cm). A student cuts the square diagonally from corner to corner to make two equal triangles. What is the area of one of those triangles?
200 square centimetres (cm2)