Real-World Problems Metric Lengths

A 13 ft. ladder is leaning against the house. The top of the ladder touches the house at 10 feet above the ground. How far away is the bottom of the ladder from the house?

• 10 feet

• 7.5 feet

• 8.3 feet

• 3.8 feet

Sally is flying a kite at an angle of 41 degrees. If the kite is 10 feet up in the air, how long is the kite string? 

• 6.6 feet

• 10.3 feet

• 15.2 feet

• 20 feet

Jake is 6 ft. tall. He is standing outside when the angle of elevation of the sun is 28 degrees. How long would his shadow be? 

• 5.3 feet

• 2.8 feet

• 3.2 feet

• 11.3 feet

A 30 ft. wire stretches from the top of a light pole diagonally to the ground. The light pole is 10 feet high. What is the angle the wire makes with the ground?

• 66 degrees

• 80 degrees

• 30 degrees

• 19 degrees

Leonardo's road map shows that the distance between Dallas and Houston is 385 of some metric unit. However, the map has been torn, so Leonardo cannot read what the unit is. What is the unit for this distance?

• mm

• cm

• m

• km

A 4 ft tall child creates a shadow that is 7.5 ft long. What is the angle of elevation of the sun? 

• 62 degrees

• 49 degrees

• 28 degrees

• 15 degrees

A ladder is leaning against a house at an angle of 39 degrees. If the ladder is 12 ft. long, how far is the bottom of the ladder from the house?

• 15.4 ft.

• 9.3 ft.

• 20.2 ft.

• 5.3 ft.

Cara monitors a snail in her aquarium. She notes that this morning it crawled 1" up the glass. A few hours later, it crawled another 2" up the glass. Later, it crawled 4" down the glass. How far is the snail from where it started?

• 1" below where it started

• 3" above where it started

• 1" above where it started

• 2" below where it stared

Joe can run 2 miles on 20 minutes. At this rate, how long will it take Joe to run 5 miles?

• 15 minutes

• 50 minutes

• 100 minutes

• 75 minutes

Which measure is not equivalent to the others?

• 0.0008 kilometer

• 0.8 meter

• 80 centimeters

• 0.008 millimeter