Converting Customary Units
How many inches are in 2 yards?
64 inches
Kiley wants to serve punch at her party. She invited 25 friends to the party and expects each friend to drink 2 cups of punch. How many ounces of fruit punch will her friends drink in all?
What is 400 ounces?
How many millimeters is 2 centimeters?
20 millimeters
Pip measured the length of a butterfly's wing was 50 millimeters. How many centimeters was the butterfly's wing?
5 centimeters
What is the appropriate customary unit of measure for measuring the length around our school building?
Feet
How many tons are in 24,000 pounds?
12 tons
Keegan got a large poster for his room. The length of his poster was 48 inches. How many feet long was his card?
4 feet
How many centimeters is 3 meters?
300 centimeters
Joe has a 500 milliliter water bottle that he fills up four times during the day. If he drinks all of it every day during the week, how many liters does he drink?
2 Liters
Which would be BEST measured in yards? Water in a water bottle, the length of a field, the height of a desk or the weight of your math workbook?
the length of a field
How many quarts are in 5 gallons?
20 quarts
Grady watched the 8 elephants at the zoo. If each elephant weighs 1,500 pounds, how many tons do all the elephants weigh?
What is 6 tons?
How many liters is 5,000 milliliters?
5 liters
George ran 3,000 meters. How many kilometers did he run?
3 Kilometers
Malana bought a new water bottle. Which metric unit of measure for capacity would best be used to measure the liquid she could fit in it?
milliliters
How many cups are in 8 quarts?
32 cups
Anna ran a 1/2 mile on Monday. She added a half mile to her run every day. How many yards did she run on Saturday?
5280 yards
How many kilometers is 8,000 meters
8 kilometers
Harper collected marbles and each one weighed 4 grams. If she collected 500 marbles, how many KILOGRAMS do the marbles weigh altogether?
2 kilograms
Which measurement tool would be used to measure the length of a cereal box? A ruler or a yardstick?
ruler
How many pounds are 1,600 ounces?
100 pounds
Grace is packing toys into 2 boxes for young children. She packs 8 toys into a box. Each toy weighs 12 ounces. How many pounds do the toys in the box weigh?
12 pounds
How many kilograms is 10,000 millimeters?
10 kilograms
Lincoln wanted to find the mass of the coins in his penny bank. The bank itself was 3 kilograms and he weighed it with the coins inside and the weight was 5 kilograms. How many grams was the weight of just the coins?
2 kg= 2,000 g.
Which metric unit of measure would be used to find the weight of a 10 year old child?
kilograms