Practice with
Metric/English Conversions
and Rates
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Answer the following questions dealing with measurement conversions.
 

1.

If a paper clip weighs approximately one gram, estimate how many paper clips will be in a 0.5 kilogram box of paper clips.

Choose:

10
50
500
1000 

 

 

2.

How many pounds of ground beef should you buy to make 120 hamburgers, if each burger patty will weigh 5 ounces before cooking?

Choose:

16
32
38
60

 

 

3.

 

You want to cut a recipe for cookies by one third (that is, you want to make only 2/3 of a full batch of cookies).  Your measuring cup is marked with fourths of a cup and also milliliters.  The recipe calls for 4 cups of flour.  How many milliliters of flour are required for your reduced recipe? 

Choose:

237
632
1264
1896

 

 

4.

To get electrical power to an air compressor, 60 feet of wire is needed.  A 15-meter roll of wire is to be used.  Will there be a sufficient amount of wire to complete the job? 

Choose:

Yes
No

 

 

5.

Angela is recovering from surgery.  The doctor told her to lift no more than 20 pounds for the next 3 weeks.  A carton of powdered carpet cleaner weighs 5 kilograms.  Should Angela lift the carton?

Choose:

Yes
No

 

 

6.

 

As you travel along a highway you notice the mile markers and reflectors along the side of the road.  There are 21 reflectors between the mile markers.  If the reflectors are equally spaced, how many feet are between each reflector?

Choose:

22
240
480
5280

 

 

7.

A cold medication indicates that an adult should take a  one-half fluid ounce dose.  An adult patient calls the pharmacy and says he only has a small medicine cup labeled in milliliters.  How many milliliters should the pharmacy tell him to take for a correct dosage?

Choose:

8
10
13
15

 


 

8.

If Pete drove 300 miles at a rate of 50 miles per hour, find the number of hours Pete traveled.

Choose:

3 hrs
5 hrs
6 hrs
10 hrs

 


 

9.

 

Sue walked to her school at 2 miles per hour, picked up her bicycle and rode back home at 10 miles per hour.  If the round trip took 1.5 hours, how far is the school from Sue's home?

Choose:

2.75 miles
2.5 miles
2 miles
1.25 miles

 


 

10.

 

A copier takes 4 minutes to duplicate 480 pages.  Express the rate at which the copier duplicates, in pages per second.

Choose:

200 pages/sec
120 pages/sec
20 pages/sec
2 pages/sec

 


 

11.

 

A car uses 18 gallons of gasoline to travel 558 miles.  How far can the car travel on 12 gallons of gasoline?

Choose:

372 miles
410 miles
472 miles
482 miles