Story Problems
9 inches of ribbons are needed for wrapping each present. How many presents can be wrapped with 6 yards of ribbon?
24 presents
2.5 ft = ____ in
30 in
What shape has 4 right angles and 4 equal sides
2.8 cm = _____ m
0.028 m
354.6 mm = ___ cm
35.46 cm
The driveway in front of the brown house is 35 feet long and the driveway in front of the red house is 7 yards and 9 feet long. The driveway in front of the blue house is 1/263rd of a mile. Which house has the longest driveway?
The Brown House
40 oz = ___ lbs
2.5 lb
What shape has 2 congruent sides and whose angles add up to 180 degrees
Isosceles Triangle
4,000 m = ____ km
4
5.5 gal = ___ qt
22 qt
A laptop computer is 59 mm thick. The packing box for the laptop is 12.8 cm deep. If the packing material fills up the space between the computer and the box, how thick is the packing material?
6.9 cm thick
4.5 gal = ____ pints
36 pints
What shape has 4 equal sides and angles?
Rhombus
3.213 km = ____ Dekameters
321.3
0.67 km = ___ hm
6.7
Each gold coin is 5 mm thick and each silver coin is 2 mm thick. Each bronze coin is 3 mm thick. A stack of 148 gold coins, 216 silver coins and 185 bronze coins was found. If the coins were stacked on top of each other, how tall would the stack be in meters??
1.727 Meters
2 mi = ____ ft
10,560 ft
What shape has one 90-degree angle and one set of parallel sides?
Trapezoid
1.2222 mm = ___ decimeteres
0.012222
0.67 km = ____ mm
670,000 mm
Jack is an athlete. Each day of the week he runs a different amount for training. On Monday, he runs 1.7 km. On Tuesday he runs 1,560 meters. On Wednesday he runs twice as far as he ran on Monday. On Thursday he runs 12,052 centimeters. On Friday he runs a fourth of how much he ran on Tuesday. How many Dekameters did Jack run during the week?
717,052 Dekameters
2.5 mi = ____ inches
157,800 inches
What shape has 4 sides that have adjacent sides that are congruent?
Kite
7.895 km = ___ cm
789,500 cm
Which system is only used in the US?
The customary system