Yr 11 Practicalities of Measurement Quiz

The number of days equivalent to 10 352 minutes is closest to:

• 7.2 days

• 172.5 days

• 431.3 days

• 4140.8 days

Anabelle measured a door to be 181 cm. The absolute error in this measurement is:

• 0.5 cm

• 0.5%

• 0.3 cm

• 0.3%

One tonne is equivalent to:

• 10⁶ mg

• 10⁹ mg

• 10^-6 mg

• 10^-9 mg

0.02893, when rounded to two significant figures, is closest to:

• 0.03

• 0.02

• 0.029

• 0.0289

The height of a person was given as 170 cm to the nearest 5 cm. The lower and upper limits of the true measurement are:

• 160 cm and 180 cm

• 165 cm and 175 cm

• 167.5 cm and 172.5 cm

• 170 cm and 180 cm

Harding Dam (Karratha WA) has a capacity of 64GL. If 5.3ML was released every minute, how many minutes did it take to release all the water and leave the dam with a capacity of 24GL?

• 4637

• 7728

• 4636

• 7547

One litre of water weighs 1 kg. One millilitre would have mass:

• 1 g

• 10 g

• 100 g

• 1 mg

45.5698 is equivalent to 45.57 when it is rounded to:

• two decimal places.

• four significant figures.

• A and B.

• neither A nor B.

Jana empties 15 bottles of juice into a large bucket. Each bottle holds 220 mL of juice and the bucket’s capacity is 5 L. How many more bottles are required to fill the bucket?

• 23

• 8

• 1700

• 7

The mass of a can of soup is 250g, to the nearest 10g. The percentage error in this measurement is:

• $\pm$ 4%

• $\pm$ 2%

• $\pm$ 0.4%

• $\pm$ 0.2%