Metric Conversions
How many decimeters in a meter?
10
How many feet in a yard?
3
How many days are in 3 weeks?
21
In the conversion 1 L= ___ mL, the number of milliliters will always be less than the number of liters.
False; you need a greater number of lesser units to equal a greater unit
17,348+4,419=?
21,767
When converting from grams to kilograms, what number are we multiplying by? 10, 100, or 1,000?
1,000
3 tons equals how many pounds?
6,000 pounds
The next leap year will be in 2020. How many days are in a leap year?
366
If a rectangle has an area of 24 square yards, and the length is 6 yards, what is the width?
4 yards
40,219-34,477
5,742
A bag of rice has a mass of 3 kilograms. Jackie buys 17 bags of rice for the school cafeteria. How many grams of rice did Jackie buy?
51,000
Mr. Jurek carried a 50-pound box from his classroom to Mr. Jarvi's classroom. How many ounces did he carry?
800 ounces
Connor H. starts baseball on March 18th. Practice starts at 3:30 pm. If practice goes until 5:30 pm, how many minutes is Connor at practice?
120 minutes
The Minnesota Viking's football field is 100 yards long and 53 yards wide. Each endzone is 10 yards. What is the perimeter of the entire football field in feet?
1,038 feet
Hayden put 2 cups of lemon juice and 5 times as much water into a jar to make a jar of lemonade. How many fluid ounces of lemonade are in the jar?
96 fluid ounces
Which is bigger? 13 decigrams, or 4 grams?
4 grams
Haile Gebrselassie is the greatest marathon runner of all time. He is running in the Boston Marathon on April 15th. He will run 26 miles. How many feet will he run?
137,280 feet
Tony is making a cake for his mom for mother's day. The recipe says to bake the cake for 35 minutes. If he puts the cake in at 11:50 am, when does he need to take the cake out?
12:25 pm
Elsa is cutting out an ice-blue colored sheet of paper that is 9 inches long and 11 inches wide. How many 1-inch squares can she cut out of the sheet of paper?
99 squares
Jasmine brought a 4-kilogram block of modeling clay. she wants to divide it into 8 equal blocks. What will be the mass of each block in grams?
500 grams
A rectangle has a length of 8 decameters and a width of 3 decameters. What is the area of the rectangle in meters?
24,000
One box of girl scout cookies weighs 4 ounces. One shipment of girl scout cookies weighs a total of 1 ton. How many packages are in the shipment?
8,000 packages
Mr. Gary is laying down tile in his home. He estimates it will take about 15 minutes per tile to lay down 36 tiles. If he starts at 9:00 am, and takes a 1-hour break at noon, when will he be done?
7:00 pm
Look at a map of the United States and find Wyoming. Wyoming is about 360 miles long and 280 miles wide. Now find Colorado on the map. Colorado is about 380 miles long and 280 miles wide. What is the area for both states together in yards?
364,672,000 square yards!!!
The perimeter of a rectangle is 40 meters. The width is 7 meters. What is the length?
13 meters