Metric Length Word Problems

John rode 2 kilometers on his bike. His sister Sally rode 3000 meters on her bike. Who rode the farthest and how much farther did they ride (answer in km)?

• Sally 1 Km

• Sally 3 Km

• John 2km

• John 4 km

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)

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

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

Cheryl is moving to a new house. Her old house is 3 kilometers from her new house. How many meters is the old house from the new house?

Jessica's shoebox is 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. How many more millimeters is the length of the shoebox than the width?

• 2000 millimeters

• 200 millimeters

• 1000 millimeters

• 100 millimeters

Carlos has a 1.2 meter long piece of wood. He wants to cut it into 3 equal lengths. How long should each piece be in millimeters?

• 400mm

• 300mm

• 500mm

• 600mm

A spider traveled 3 meters in one minute. How many centimeters did it travel?

• 100 cm.

• 350 cm.

• 300 cm.

Wade built a fence around a rectangular section of his backyard. The length of the section is 20 feet and the width is 5 feet. What is the perimeter of the fenced section?

• 10 feet

• 50 feet

• 100 feet

The length of a rectangular field is 65 meters. Its width is 35 meters. Joni ran around the field one time. How far did she run?

• 200 meters

• 100 meters

• 2,275 meters