Units of Measurement (Conversion Word Problems)

A bead shop sells their tiniest beads by the pound. A new shipment of beads weighing 2 pounds is divided into 8 equal sized bags.How many ounces of beads are in each bag?

• 12 ounces
• 4 ounces
• 32 ounces
• 2 ounces

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

CCSS.5.NF.B.3

Jewel buys 3 yards of fabric to make a cat bed. She starts the project by cutting 4 feet of fabric off the end. How many feet long is the remaining piece of fabric?

• 5 feet
• 12 feet
• 9 feet
• 17 feet

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

Jason ran 325 meters farther than Kim ran. Kim ran 4.2 kilometers. How many meters did Jason run?

• 4,200 m

• 4,525 m

• 3,875 m

• 3,250 m

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

Parents are making 2 batches of punch for the school's Spring Fair. The recipe calls for only one batch calls for 1 liter of orange juice, 550 milliliters of lemon juice, 2.6 liters of soda water, and two 750 milliliters bottles of apple cider. How many LITERS of punch will she make?

• 11.3 L

• 5.65 L

• 4.9 L

• 9.8 L

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

CCSS.5.MD.C.5

CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

A nickle has a mass of 5 grams while a penny has a mass of 2.5 grams. What is the mass in kilograms of a bag of coins containing 186 nickles and 72 pennies?

• 548.5 kg

• 0.816 kg

• 1.935 kg

• 1.11 kg

Cam ran for 24 feet with the football before lateraling it to McCaffrey who ran 70 yards for a touchdown. What was the total number of feet the ball traveled?

• 249 ft

• 78 ft

• 94 ft

• 186 ft

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

Melanie and Brad each drink 10 cups of water every day. Lara drinks 3 quarts of water every day. How many gallons of water do all three of them drink altogether in 7 days?

• 32 gal

• 161 gal

• 23 gal

• 14 gal

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

CCSS.5.MD.C.5

A casserole recipes calls for 4 ounces of cheese. Adrian wants to use 1/2 of the amount of cheese in his casseroles. How many pounds of cheese will he need to make 28 casseroles with his revised recipe?

• 1.4 lbs

• 0.875 lbs

• 3.5 lbs

• 14 lbs

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.5

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

Your family wants to frame your drawing from the art show. The rectanguar drawing has a length of 43.5 centimeters and width of 934 millimeters. How many centimeters of wood framing you will need.

• 488.75 cm

• 105.68 cm

• 977.5 cm

• 273.8 cm

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CCSS.5.MD.A.1

At field day students were competing in a relay race with a total distance of 750 meters.  There were 3 students on each relay team. How many meters did each student run? 

• 2250 meters 
• 750 meters
• 250 meters
• 2150 meters

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.5.NF.B.3