Customary & Metric Measurement

The lengths of three snakes exhibited in the zoo’s reptile house are labeled.

· The king snake is 65 inches.

· The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is 2 yards.

· The ridge-nosed rattlesnake is 4 feet.

Which statement correctly compares the lengths of the snakes?

A baker needs 6 quarts of milk for a cupcake frosting recipe. He only has an 8-ounce measuring cup to measure the milk into the bowl. How many cups of milk will he use?

Mr. Martinez has 2.5 kilograms of colored sand for his art students to use on their sand art project. He packages the sand into individual bags with 125 grams in each bag. How many bags of sand can Mr. Martinez make?

When Rosa makes lemonade, she uses 500 milliliters of lemon juice for every liter of water. If she made 12 liters of lemonade, how much lemon juice did she use?

A Komodo dragon is 3 meters long. A dwarf gecko is 15 millimeters long. How many dwarf geckos lined up end-to-end would match the length of the Komodo dragon?

Campers use a roll of string that is 250 yards long to make kites. Each kite will have 50 feet of kite line. How many kite lines can they cut from the roll of string?

Howard cuts 80 centimeters off a 1.5-meter board. How much of the board does Howard have left?

Mr. Carter fills a tub with water so he can give his dog a bath. Which is the most appropriate unit for measuring the capacity of a tub?

Milton purchases a 5-gallon aquarium for his bedroom. To fill the aquarium with water, he uses a container with a capacity of 1 quart. How many times will Milton fill and empty the container before the aquarium is full?

Alfred uses the same tool to measure the distance across a sidewalk and the distance across town. Which tool does he use?