Metric 1
Angie and Victor connected their marble runs to make one long super-run. Angie's marble run was 2 meters long. Victor's was 1 meter long. How many centimeters long was their super-run?
300
A piece of paper weighs 5 grams. How many decigrams does the piece of paper weigh?
50
John ran in an 8-km race. How many decameters did he run?
800 decameters
4 liters equals how many milliliters?
4000 milliliters
3 meters equals how many centimeters?
300 centimeters
The smoothie shop has a big blender that holds 3 liters of smoothie. The worker makes a full batch of strawberry banana smoothie and pours it equally into 4 cups. How many milliliters of smoothie does each cup get?
750
A road construction crew built a 3-kilometer stretch of road. They divided it into 6 equal sections for paving. How many meters long is each section?
500
Emily needs a lot of blue paint for her beach painting, so she bought a 0.5-liter bottle. She mixed 75 milliliters of blue paint with white to make the sky. She wanted the ocean to be darker, so she mixed 120 milliliters of blue paint with green for that part. How many milliliters of blue paint does she have left?
305
It rained 355,000 milliliters. How many liters did it rain?
355 liters
Craig's gym class is running a relay race. Each team of 4 students runs a total of 1.6 kilometers. If every student runs the same distance, how many meters does Craig run?
400
Instead of having a cake, Mandy wants to make ice cream sundaes at her next birthday party. She thinks each person will eat 200 milliliters of ice cream, and there will be 24 people at her party. How many liters of ice cream should she buy?
4.8
Waffle Wonderland puts a 250-milliliter bottle of maple syrup on each one of their 16 tables. The owner is filling the syrup bottles before the restaurant opens. If the bottles are half full, how many liters would she need to fill the bottles?
2
Larry decides to take his puppy for a walk. After 200 meters, they stop to smell some roses. Then, Larry runs into a friend 600 meters up the road. They start talking, and soon it's time for Larry to go home. So, he and his puppy head back to his house. How many kilometers long was Larry's walk?
1.6
Marie's bucket holds 2,530 milliliters of water. Katie's bucket holds 2 liters of water. Whose bucket holds the least amount of water?
Katie's bucket
Mr. Wilson is packing orders for his soap business. One customer ordered 12 bars of his Minty Morning soap. If each bar of soap weighs 120 grams, how many kilograms will this order weigh?
1.44
Larry's parents give him a small scoop of peas with dinner. He lines them up all the way across his 20-centimeter plate. Then, he eats them one at a time. If each pea is about 8 millimeters wide, how many peas does Larry eat?
25
Before his hike, Mitch filled his water bottle with 1.5 liters of water. During the hike, he drank 300 milliliters every hour. Afterward, he had 600 milliliters left. How many hours did he hike?
3
Nancy is keeping track of her calcium intake for a nutrition challenge at school. So far, she drank 1 glass of milk with breakfast and 1 glass with lunch. Each glass had 300 milligrams of calcium. If her goal is to have 1 gram of calcium every day, how many more milligrams does Nancy need?
400
Gina is helping her mom carry groceries. The bag she is carrying has everything they need to make spaghetti for dinner tonight. It has 450 grams of spaghetti, 750 grams of tomato sauce, and 0.5 kilograms of ground beef. How many kilograms does her bag of groceries weigh?
1.7
A large soda at the movie’s holds 2,000 milliliters. A large soda at McDonald’s holds 1 liter. Which place has the bigger large soda?
The movie's
Liz is building a treehouse with her father. Her job is to make a rope ladder with 9 steps. She uses 400 millimeters of rope for each step. She also uses 2 meters of rope for the left side and 2 meters of rope for the right side. How many meters of rope does Liz use in all?
7.6
Dr. Brown, a veterinarian, noticed that he only had about 200 grams of cat treats left. So, he bought a new 2.5-kilogram jar. If he uses about 100 grams of cat treats every week, in how many weeks will he run out?
27
Emilia is training for the New York City Triathlon. She is nervous about swimming 1.5 kilometers in the Hudson River. So, she wants to make sure that she can swim that far in a swimming pool. So far, she has swum 20 laps. If each lap is 25 meters, how many more laps does she have to swim?
40
Martina is making soft pretzel nuggets. Her recipe says that, after she makes the dough, she should divide it into 8 equal pieces. Then, she needs to roll each piece into a 50-centimeter-long rope and cut it into nuggets. If she decides to make each pretzel nugget 25 millimeters long, how many can she make in all?
160
An Italian restaurant needs to make pasta with garlic cream sauce for 80 guests at a party. One batch of pasta calls for 600 milliliters of cream and feeds 8 people. The restaurant already has 4 liters of cream in the fridge. How many more liters of cream will they need for the pasta?
2