Metric Conversion
Word Problems
Area
Perimeter
Volume Conversion
100

9 m = ____ dm

9 m = 90 dm

100

Emily’s dog weighed 14 Kg. The dog lost 800 g after it fell ill. What is the dog’s weight (in Kg) now?

800 g = 0.8 Kg 14 – 0.8 = 13.2

The dog’s weight is 13.2 Kg

100

Mr. Fitch hires a landscape architect to renovate his front yard. The rectangular yard is 30 feet long. If the area of the front yard is 600 square feet, determine the width of the yard.

20 feet

100

Karoline is out for a run. She decides to run around a park in town. The length of the sides of the park are 15 meters, 10 meters, 12 meters and 14 meters. How many meters did Natalie run? 

51 m

100

1 qt 2 C  =  ______ C

6 C

200

22 km = ___ decameters

2200 decameters

200

A baby boy weighed 8 lb. 6 oz. at birth. After two weeks, his weight was increased by 14 oz. What was the baby’s weight when he was two weeks old?

8 lb. 6 oz. + 14 oz. = 8 lb. 20 oz. = 9 lb. 4 oz.

The baby’s weight was 9 lb. 4 oz. when he was two weeks old.

200

The screen of an LED TV measures 32 inches in length and its area is 896 square inches. What is the width of the screen?

28 inches

200

A photograph has 2 sides that are 6 cm and 2 sides that are 10 cm. What is the perimeter of the photograph? 

32 cm

200

22 C = ____ qt _____ c

5 quarts and 4 cups

300

42 dm = ____ hm

0.042 hm

300

The camp chef decided to make 160 pancakes for breakfast. According to the recipe, he needs to mix 24 ml of milk and 12 ml of water for each pancake. What is the total volume of the mixture in liters?

24 + 12 = 36 ml per pancake 

160 x 36 = 5,760 ml = 5.76 L 

The total volume of the mixture is 5.76 L.

300

The area of an apple orchard is 4,675 square feet. Find the length of the rectangular orchard, if its width is 55 feet.

85 feet

300

A pentagon has 3 sides that are the same length and 2 sides that are different lengths. The 3 sides are 8 yards long. The other 2 sides are 11 and 6 yards long. What is the perimeter? 

41 yards

300

15 qt = ___ gal ___ qt

15 qt = 3 gal 3 qt gal

400

10,000 mm = ____ decameters

1000000 decameters

400

The school opens at 8:35 a.m. Classes start at 9:15 a.m. The two breaks are at 11:00 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. School ends at 3:15 p.m. Sam arrives at school at 8:20 a.m. today. How much time does he need to wait before the school opens?

Sam needs to wait for 15 minutes before the school opens.

400

The area of an aluminum sheet is 124.32 square feet. If its length is 22.2 feet, what is the width of the aluminum sheet?

5.6 feet

400

A pentagon has 2 sides that are the same length and 2 sides that are the same length and 1 side that is 8 cm. The total perimeter is 28 cm long. 2 sides are 2 cm shorter that the 1 side. And the other 2 sides are 2 cm shorter than those sides. What are the lengths of the missing sides? 

6 cm

4 cm

400

14 gal = ____ c

14 gal = 224 c

500

60 hectometers = _____ meters

6000 meters

500

Sam needs to wait for 15 minutes before the school opens.

4 hours

500

Ted's rectangular corn !eld has an area of 2,280 square feet. What is the length of the !eld, if its width measures 28.5 feet?

80 feet

500

Kelly runs a rectangular route everyday after school of a total of 4.8 km. First she runs from her house to the park, which is 2.3 km. Then runs to the grocery stores that is 1 km from the park. She finishes her run by popping over to her friends house to drop off her homework, only 500 meters away. Finally she heads home. How long is the run from her friend's house to Kelly's home? 

1 km

500

14 C  =  _____ qt ______ C

3 qt 2 C