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Measurement Conversion Practice Problems

The document contains a series of sample problems related to units and measurements, covering various conversions and calculations such as speed, area, volume, dosage, and cost. Each problem provides specific data and requires the application of unit conversions and mathematical operations. The problems are designed to test understanding of measurement units and their applications in real-world scenarios.

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Measurement Conversion Practice Problems

The document contains a series of sample problems related to units and measurements, covering various conversions and calculations such as speed, area, volume, dosage, and cost. Each problem provides specific data and requires the application of unit conversions and mathematical operations. The problems are designed to test understanding of measurement units and their applications in real-world scenarios.

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SAMPLE PROBLEMS

UNITS AND MEASUREMENTS


• A student averaged 45 miles per hour on a trip. What was the student’s
speed in feet per second? 0.621 mile = 1 kilometer & 3.28 ft = 1 meter
• Convert 8 ft3 to yd3. If 1 yd = 3 ft
• A room is 10 ft by 12 ft. How many square yards are in the room? The
area of the room is (area = length × width). If 1 yd = 3 ft
• A child is prescribed a dosage of 12 mg of a certain drug per day and is
allowed to refill his prescription twice. If there are 60 tablets in a
prescription, and each tablet has 4 mg, how many doses are in the 3
prescriptions?
• On a recent trip, Faker travelled 260 miles using 8 gallons of gas. What
was the car’s miles per gallon for this trip? Kilometres per litre?
0.621 mile = 1 kilometer & 1 gallon = 3785 mL
• You are buying carpet to cover a room that measures 38 ft by 40 ft. The
carpet cost $18 per square yard. How much will the carpet cost? 1 yd = 3 ft.
• A car travels 23 km in 15 minutes. How fast is it going in kilometres per
hour? In metres per second?
• The largest single rough diamond ever found, the Cullinan Diamond,
weighed 3106 carats. One carat is equivalent to the mass of 0.20 grams. What
is the mass of this diamond in milligrams?
• A cargo container is 50 ft long, 10 ft wide, and 8 ft tall. Find its volume in
cubic yards and cubic metres. If 1 yd = 3 ft & 3.28 ft = 1 meter
• An average human heart beats 60 times per minute. If the average person
lives to the age of 86, how many times does the average heart beat in a
lifetime? 1 month = 30 days
• A certain laser printer can print 12 pages per minute. Determine this
printer’s output in pages per day.
• 16 ft/s2 to kilometres per hour squared
• 186,000 mph to kilometres per year. 1 mile = 1.62 km
• 248 mph to metres per second
• 5500 cm3 to cubic yards. 1 yard = 91.44 cm
• 1.35 km to centimetres
• New pipeline to supply water will be 1.2 km long. Staff put it on both
ends. There is already 0.492 km of pipeline put on one side and 53,500 cm
from the other side. How many meters of pipeline have still to be put ?
• From the barrel of fruit juice is filled 306 bottles of 0.7 liters. How many
bottles of 0.3 liters would be filled with the same amount of juice ?
• The balloon flew 8 hours 8 minutes and 8 seconds. How many seconds
were missing to it flew 10 hours ?
• Peter planted 220 kg of potatoes and harvested twelve times more of
them. How many tons of potatoes has he harvested ? 1 Ton = 907.185 kg
• A meat was delivered to a canteen from a meat factory. There was 8,200
g of pork for 43 $/kg, 11.4 kg of beef for 22 $/kg and 7.8 kg of sausages
for 34 $/kg. How many usd billed the meat factory to the canteen ?
• Express from Paris left at 13:33. It arrived to Bern at 16:17. How many
minutes did the journey take ? What distance in km it traveled with an
average speed of 254 km/h ?

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