Real-World Measurement Challenges for 5th Graders

A recipe calls for 2.5 cups of flour. If you want to make half the recipe, how many cups of flour do you need?

• 1 cup

• 2 cups

• 1.25 cups

• 3 cups

A garden is 12 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is the area of the garden in square feet?

• 80 square feet

• 96 square feet

• 100 square feet

• 72 square feet

You have a piece of ribbon that is 3.75 meters long. If you cut it into 5 equal pieces, how long will each piece be?

• 2 meters

• 0.5 meters

• 1.5 meters

• 0.75 meters

A swimming pool is 20 meters long and 10 meters wide. What is the perimeter of the pool?

• 50 meters

• 40 meters

• 60 meters

• 70 meters

A box weighs 2.5 kilograms. If you have 4 boxes, what is the total weight in kilograms?

• 12 kilograms

• 6 kilograms

• 10 kilograms

• 8 kilograms

You need to paint a wall that is 10 feet high and 15 feet wide. How many square feet of wall do you need to paint?

• 150 square feet

• 75 square feet

• 100 square feet

• 200 square feet

A car travels 60 miles in 1 hour. How far will it travel in 3 hours?

• 150 miles

• 120 miles

• 240 miles

• 180 miles

You have a container that holds 1.5 liters of juice. If you fill it with 0.75 liters, how much more juice can you add?

• 0.75 liters

• 1.25 liters

• 0.5 liters

• 1 liter

A rectangular garden is 5 meters long and 3 meters wide. What is the length of the diagonal of the garden?

• 7.50 meters

• 6.00 meters

• 4.00 meters

• 5.83 meters

You bought 3.2 kilograms of apples. If each apple weighs 0.4 kilograms, how many apples did you buy?

• 6

• 4

• 8

• 10