Metric Conversion Real World Word Problems

How many liters are equivalent to 3,200 milliliters?

• 0.032 liter

• 0.32 liter

• 3.2 liters

• 32 liters

Zoe works in a bakery. She uses 250 milliliters of milk to make a loaf of bread. How many liters of milk will she need to make 15 loaves of bread?

• 3.75 liters

• 37.5 liters

• 375 liters

• 3,750 liters

There were 4 liters of water in a pitcher. Eight glasses were filled with 325 milliliters of water. How much water remains in the pitcher?

• 0.4 liter

• 0.6 liter

• 1.4 liters

• 2.6 liters

Main street is 2.6 miles long. There are 13 sets of stop signs on Main street, each the same distance apart. How many meters apart are the stop signs?

• 20 meters

• 50 meters

• 200 meters

• 500 meters

On Monday, your bus drives 5.6 km to school. On Tuesday, your bus takes a different route home that is 950 m shorter. What is the length of the shortcut in kilometers?

Chef Vilma bought 1.3 kgs of skim milk. She used some skim milk for baking a birthday cake and 450 g of it was left. How much skim milk (in grams) did she use?

• 85 g

• 850 g

• 8.5 g

• 0.85 g

Each day, Lauren jogs for 25 minutes on a treadmill. She jogs 135 meters each minute. How many kilometers will Lauren jog in 25 minutes?

• 3,375 kilometers

• 3.375 kilometers

• 625 kilometers

• 337.5 kilometers

Which measure is not equivalent to the others?

• 0.0008 kilometer

• 0.8 meter

• 80 centimeters

• 0.008 millimeter

Each morning Paul rides 500m on an

exercise bike. How many kilometers

does he ride in one week?

• 3.5 km

• 3500 km

• 3,500,000 km

• 35 km

I make 2.5kg of popcorn and eat 750g of it while watching a movie. How much popcorn do I have left in decigrams?

• 1250 dg

• 125,000 dg

• 12,500 dg

• 125 dg