Metric Units of Length
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Word Problems
Sock it to me
100
1 m = __ cm
100 cm
100
275 L = ___ mL
275,000 mL
100
925 kg = ___ g
925,000 mg
100
Crystal has 8 Liters of soda. How many milliliters does she have?
8,000 mL
100
A bedroom ceiling is 
meters high. How high the ceiling is in centimeters?
250 cm
100
The hallway to Mr. Lockey’s bedroom is 7 meters long. How many centimeters long is the hallway?
700 cm
200
58 m = ___ cm
5,800 cm
200
34 L = ___ mL
34,000 mL
200
190 kg = ___ g
190,000g
200
Sara went on a 5,234 meter walk in the park. How many centimeters did she walk?
523,400 cm
200
A large flowerpot in front of a mall weighs 580 kilograms. How many grams does it weigh?
580,000 g
200
How many grams are equal to 51 kilograms?
51,000
300
7.5 m = ___ cm
750 cm
300
427 L = ___ mL
427,000 mL
300
42 kg = ___ g
42,000 mg
300
The fish tank in Timothy’s classroom holds 30 liters of water. How many milliliters of water does the fish tank hold?
30,000 mL
300
Robin weighs her math textbook and finds that it is 2 kilograms. How many grams does her textbook weigh?
2,000 g
300
Karen swam laps in a pool for three days. She swam 800 meters on Monday, 1 kilometer on Wednesday, and 1,200 meters on Thursday. How many total meters did Karen swim?
3,000 meters
400
33 m = ___ cm
3300 cm
400
50 L = __ mL
50,000 mL
400
6 kg = ___ g
6,000 g
400
A lunchroom table is 5 meters long. How many centimeters long is the table?
500 cm
400
Emma had a piece of ribbon that was 3 meters long. She cut it into 6 equal parts. How long was each piece of ribbon, in centimeters?
50 cm
400
What ordered pair completes the table below?
Meters Centimeters
? ?
3 300
5 500
(1, 100)
500
Melanie needs 3.5 meters of ribbon to decorate a package. She has 1.5 meters of ribbon right now. The ribbon is only sold in centimeter lengths. How many centimeter lengths of ribbon does Melanie need to buy in order to have the amount she needs?
200 centimeters of ribbon
500
- One bottle of soda holds approximately 625 mL. A fish tank holds 8 times more water than the bottle of soda. How much soda could the fish tank hold?
5,000 mL
500
Chris hired movers to help him move to his new house. The movers said they would not lift boxes that weighed more than 80 kilograms. What is the weight limit that the movers will not lift in grams?
80,000 grams
500
A meter is 100 centimeters. How many centimeters are in 132 meters?
13,200 cm
500
Nicole is running in a race. She runs 5 km. How many meters did she run?
5000 m
500
Maria drank 3 liters of water last week. Courtney drank twice as much water as Maria. How many milliliters of water did they both drink?
9,000 milliliters