Which unit measure would you use to

measure..?
1. The width of a book page is about
20_____.
2. The length of a ten-peso bill is about 16
___.
3. A car is about 4 ______ long.
4. The height of a bus is about 4 _____.
5. The height of a person is about 175
_______.
Read each sentence and decide whether the
measurement makes sense. Can you explain your
answer?

1.A man has a weight of 70 kilograms.

2.A basketball has a height of 1800
grams.
3.A cat has a weight of 3 000 grams.
4.A drinking glass holds 50 liters of
orange juice.
5.A bathtub holds 20 liters of water.
Change the following units as indicated.

1.3 m = ______ cm 6. 7 500 m L

=_____L
2. 8 km = _____ m 7. 55 dm = _____ m
3.0.11 km = ___ m 8. 12 km = ______ m
4.5 000 mL = __ L 9. 2 500 g = _____ kg
5.2.2 kg = _____ g 10. 780 mg = _____ g
Answer the following.
1. What is the distance
around a circular lagoon
which is 12 metres
across?
2. Arleen wants to sew
lace on the edges of her
bed cover. If the bed
cover is 3 meters long
and 2 meters wide, how
many meters of lace
will she need?
3. Bobs father built a
small wading pool that is
3 meters by 5 meters. If
Bob walks around the
pool 12 times, how many
meters will he have
walked in all?
4. The Pentagon in
Washington, D. C. is
shaped like a regular
pentagon. The length of
each side is 276.3 meters.
What is the perimeter of
the Pentagon?
5. A rectangle has a
perimeter of 38 cm.
It has a length of 12
cm. What is its
width?
6. Mr. Martin has a
triangular lot in
Quezon City. Its base
measures 195 meters
and its height measures
125 meters. What is the
area of the lot?
7. A glass top
measures 130 cm by
46 cm. Will it fit a
table that measures
127 cm by 62 cm?
8. A square tile of
side 25 cm costs Php
22.50 each. How
much would it cost to
tile a floor that is 4
meters by 3.5 m?
9. A sewing box is 18
cm long, 12 cm wide,
and 8 cm high. What
is the volume of the
sewing box?
10. How much milk
can be contained in a
can whose radius is 5
cm and height is 15
cm?


11. The volume of a

rectangular solid is
160 . Its length is 8
cm and its width is 5
cm. What is its
height?
12. One cylinder has a
radius of 6 cm and a
height of 15 cm. Another
has a radius of 8 cm and a
height of 10 cm. Which
has the greater volume?
By how much?
13. A computer room is 15
m long, 8 m wide, and 4 m
high. If the air is change
every 3 minutes, how
many cubic meters of the
air moves through the
room in one hour?
14. A weatherman finds
that the temperature is
17C at 1:00 P. M. At
midnight, the temperature
was 10C. Did the
temperature rise or fall?
By how many degrees?
15. John uses an almanac to
find the world temperatures.
This page is smudged, and he
cannot tell whether the
temperature at the North
Pole is 40C or -40C. which
is the more likely
temperature? Why?
16. One class began to put
up a used-toy booth at
8:45 A.M.. They finished
the booth at 10:45 A.M.
how long did it take them
to put up the booth?
17. Monique gets an
allowance of Php 60 a day,
She spends Php 30 for
lunch, Php 10 for snacks,
Php 12 for fare and saves
the rest. How much does
she save each day?
Challeng
e!!
1. What rectangles have
a perimeter of 52 cm if
both the length and
width are whole
numbers? (Hint: There
are 13 rectangles)
2. Three containers have
capacities of three, five,
and nine liters. How can
you use these containers to
measures exactly seven
liters of water?
3. To fence the side of his property
facing the street, Mr. Martin had
planned to use fence posts placed 2
meters apart. Because of the
increase in price of the posts, he
decided to buy 4 fewer posts and
planned to place the posts 3 meters
apart. How many posts would he
have bought at first?
4. Mr. Garcias house
measures 9 m by 11 m. His
scale drawing showed
dimensions of 18 cm by 22
cm. What scale did Mr.
Garcia use? How big is a
room that is 7 cm by 6 cm in
the plan?
5. An architect used a scale of
2 cm: 3 m to make a drawing
of the school cafeteria. The
dimensions of the drawing are
20 cm by 16 cm. What are the
actual dimensions of the
cafeteria?
6. The squares of a 13 by
13 grid are colored
alternately red and white.
If the centermost square is
colored white, how many
red and how many white
squares are there?
7. A certain clock loses 5
minutes an hour. If the
clock is set to the correct
time at 9:00 a.m., what
will the correct time be
when the slow clock shows
10:00 a.m. the next day?
8. A swimming pool
is 35 m by 20 m. a 2
m concrete walk is
built around the
pool. What is the
area of the walk?
9. A 25-meter deep well of
radius 8 dm is dug. If the
concrete wall placed
around its sides is 6 cm
deep, what is the volume
of the concrete used for
the walls?
Thank