Measurement Word Problems
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Length
- 1 foot (ft) = 12 inches (in)
- 1 yard (yd) = 3 feet (ft)
- 1 yard (yd) = 36 inches (in)
- 1 mile (mi) = 1,760 yards (yd)
- 1 mile (mi) = 5,280 feet (ft)
- 1 meter (m) = 100 cm
- 1 km = 1,000 m
- 1 meter (m) = 3.28 ft
- 1 meter (m) = 1,094 yards
- 1 inch = 2.54 cm
The height of one sail on a yacht is 12 feet.
And the second sail is 14 feet high.
How much higher is the second sail?
Jack was 5 feet 9 inches tall last year.
He grew 7 inches in the past year.
How tall is he now?
Diana's laptop computer is 18 inches long.
The width is18 inches longer than the length.
What is the width of Diana's computer?
Guitar length 3.5 inches. How many centimeters is it?
If Becky cuts 5 cm from her ribbon, then her ribbon will become 9 cm shorter than Gina's ribbon. How long is Becky's ribbon if Gina's ribbon is 15 cm long?
Children jumped in length.
Thomas jumped 82 cm, Lewis's result was 5 cm better than Thomas's.
Mason jumped 8 cm less than Lewis.
How many centimeters did Lewis jump?
Betty walked 400 m per day, every day for one week.
How many kilometers did she walk all together?
Helena wants to use a pink ribbon to decorate the 5-inch square gift card on the perimeter. What is the length of the piece of pink ribbon that Helena needs?
Ethan ran around the track three times. The track was 600 meters.
How many kilometers did he run all together?
Bob's yard is 25 meters long and 25 meters wide.
Nick's yard is 50 meters long and 10 meters wide.
Both yards contain only right angles.
Whose yard is bigger?
Mass and weight
- 1 pound (lb) = 16 Ounces (oz)
- 1 kilogram (kg) = 1,000 gram (g)
July wants to make some pancakes for her friends.
The recipe says she would need 8 oz of flour for 1 batch of pancakes.
July wants to make 4 batches of pancakes.
How much flour does she need?
A bag of flour weighs 4 lb. If my mother needs 16 lb. of flour,
how many bags of flour should she buy?
The turkey is 18 lb 11 oz and the stuffing inside the turkey is 5 oz.
What is the total weight of the roasted turkey?
A pizza has a mass of 2 lb. David cut it into 8 pieces.
What is the mass of one piece?
A coin has a mass of 20 g. What is the mass of 6 coins?
A crate of oranges has a mass of 12 kg. The empty crate is 500 g.
What is the actual mass of oranges?
Linda buys greeting cards for her two friends.
She also sees mini bags that hold 30 grams of glitter.
She decides to buy one and split the shine equally between the two
cards.
How many grams of glitter does Linda put into each card?
Margaret bought a 4 kg 400 g pumpkin.
And Jessica bought a pumpkin 700 g heavier.
How much does Jessica's pumpkin weigh?
The recipe for brownie cake needs 0.5 lb chocolate.
The recipe for one cupcake needs 5 oz chocolate.
Which recipe needs more chocolate?
Johnson wants to send a box of mangoes to a friend by mail.
The box of mangoes cannot exceed a mass of 13 kg.
If each orange has a mass of 300g, what is the maximum number of mangoes he
can send?
Capacity (Volumes)
- 16 ounces = 2 cups = 1 pint
- 2 pints = 1 quart
- 4 quarts = 1 gallon
- 1 gal = 3.78 liters
Eva needs to take a bath with sea salt. The package says to put in 1 ounce of sea salt for every half-gallon of water in the bathtub. If the bathtub has 16 gallons of water, how many spoons of sea salt can she put into the bath?
The capacity of a tanker truck is 720 L and the capacity of the fuel tank of a motorbike is 45 L. How many motorbikes can a full tanker truck fill up?
The capacity of the bathtub is 175 liters.
The tap can fill up the bathtub in 25 minutes.
How much water is added to the tub per minute?
From 10g of instant coffee, 120 ml of coffee can be brewed.
In a can of instant coffee is 200 g.
How much coffee (in liters) can you make from a can?
Five full barrels of grape juice are in the cellar which is 12 feet
wide.
If the capacity of each barrel is 84 gallons, how much grape juice is there
in total?
The doctor prescribed Anna a cough medicine to take 10 milliliters three times a day. The whole bottle contains 180 ml of cough medicine. How many days will last the medicine?
At the picnic, Jessie drank 150 ml of lemonade, 0.5 liters of orange
juice.
How much did Jessie drink altogether?
What is the volume of a 6-gallon bucket in liters?
A medium-sized grapefruit can yield 65 ml of juice.
A large grapefruit can produce 95 ml of juice.
Amelia wants to make 3 liters of juice,
so she bought 14 medium and 18 large grapefruits.
Does she have enough grapefruit to make 3 liters of juice?
Mrs. Morgan bought 2 packs of juice, 2.5 liters each.
Her two children drank 1.2 liters on Thursday and 850 ml on Friday.
How much juice is left?
For Kindergarten
Lily's doll is 19 centimeters tall.
Molly's doll is 2 centimeters shorter than Mary's.
Who has a shorter doll?
On Monday the worm was 6 inches long.
On Friday it is 10 inches long.
How much did the worm grow?
Ann's carrot is 5 cm long.
Nick's carrot is 3 cm longer.
How long is Nick's carrot?
Tina’s sandcastle is 2 feet tall.
Sindy's sandcastle is 1 foot taller than Tina's.
How many feet tall is Sindy's house?
Spruce and pine grow in the forest.
In the forest, the spruce is 4 meters tall.
The pine tree is 2 meters taller than the spruce.
How many meters tall is the pine tree?
The red pencil is 3 inches long.
The blue pencil is 2 inches longer.
What is the length of the blue pencil?
James has a 4 liter of juice in the jug.
If he drank one liter in a day, how much juice was left in the jug?
If each little cupcake needs 5 grams of sugar,
how many grams of sugar will need for 2 cupcakes?
If a duck weighs 3 kilograms and a turkey weighs 6 kilograms,
what is the overall weight of a duck and a turkey together?
Mother-kangaroo and her baby in the bag together weigh 10 stones.
If a baby-kangaroo weighs 1 stone, how many stones does a single
mother-kangaroo weigh?
