Centimeters and Meters Conversions

Karen and Meredith are swimming laps in a pool. Together they swim 2 and a half laps which is the same as 250 meters. How many centimeters did they swim?  

John ran 16m and 250cm on Saturday. Sunday he ran 11m and 175cm. How many centimeters did John run?

Kyle measured the length of his truck and it was 534 centimeters long. How many meters long is his truck? (1 meter = 100 centimeters)

• 5.34 meters

• 53.4 meters

• 5,340 meters

• 0.0534 meters

Mitchell raced Jeremiah at recess. They both ran a total of 450 meters. How many centimeters did they run? (1 meter = 100 centimeters)

• 45,000 cm

• 450,000 cm

• 4,500 cm

• .45 cm

Convert 5 cm to mm:

• 5,000mm

• 0.5 mm

• 0.05 mm

• 50 mm

Convert 8 kilometers to meters

• 800 m

• 80,000 m

• 8,000 m

• .008 m

Jessica is measuring two line segments. The first line segment is 30 cm long. The second line segment is 500 mm long. How long are the two line segments together? (answer in cm)

• 8m

• 80cm

• 800cm

• 80m

Walt grew 10 centimeters in 1 year. He is now 1.6 m tall. How tall was he 1 year ago?

• 1500cm

• 1,500cm

• 15m

• 1.5m

Mary buys a reel of thread for sewing. There are 10 m of thread on the real. She uses 210 cm. How much is left on the reel in centimeters?

• 79cm

• 79m

• 790cm

• 790m

Chase measured a line for his art project. It is 200 millimeters long. How many centimeters is the line?

• 200cm

• 20cm

• 2cm

• 0.2cm