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2. Converting Units of Measure

3. Remember that we have been working with converting units of measurement in the metric and English systems. Today we will review for a unit test that will be on tomorrow.

4. If fifth grade students at Riverside Middle School drink 12 gallons of milk from the cafeteria on an average day, how many cups of milk do they drink?

5. Landry and Jerome emptied the water from a bathtub using the largest container they had, a quart jar. They emptied the quart jar ninety-two times. How many gallons of water did they empty from the bathtub? How many cups did they empty?

6. Christy picked green beans from her garden. She picked and snapped a five gallon bucket of beans. If she was canning them in quart jars, how many jars should she expect to fill? What about pint jars?

7. Contractor Bill measured the length of the hallway in the office building he was working on to be eleven yards. The base board he is purchasing comes in feet. How many feet of base board does he need to cover the length of the hallway? Remember he must cover both sides in base board.

8. Jelly Bean Junction produces 12 pounds of jelly beans every hour. How many ounces of jelly beans do they produce in an eight hour work day?

9. If there are 5,280 feet in a mile. About how many yards would be in a mile?

10. The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council recommends that for every calorie of food a person should consume one milliliter of liquid. If the average adult eats about 2000 calories of food per day, how many liters of liquid should he or she consume?

11. If a regular sheet of 16 pound weight copy paper has a thickness of 0.081 mm, how many centimeters tall would a ream of 500 sheets be?

12. Carlos kicked a soccer ball in a straight line at 75 meters four times in a row. How many centimeters did he kick the ball?

13. 4 cups = ____ quarts 8 gallons = ____ pints 32 cups = ____ gallons

14. 24 quarts = ____ gallons 20 cups = ____ pints 5 quarts = ____ cups

15. 3 gallons = ____ quarts 3 pints = ____ cups 48 pints = ____ gallons

16. 10 gallons = ____ cups

17. 12 feet = ____ inches 21 feet = ____ yards 60 inches = ____ feet 96 yards = ____ feet 17 yards = ____ inches

18. 108 inches = ____ yards 4 feet = ____ inches 78 feet = ____ yards 32 ounces = ____ pounds 5 pounds = ____ ounces

19. 4 tons = ____ pounds 26 pounds = ____ ounces 13,000 pounds = ____ tons 1,600 ounces = ____ pounds

20. 10 hectometers = ____ centimeters 25 milligrams = ____ kilograms ____ grams = 12,000 milligrams 2,000 kilometers = ____ meters 0.856 liters = ____ centiliters

21. ____ millimeters = 2 centimeters 2,500 millimeters = ____ meters ____ meters = 156 centimeters 9.5 centimeters = ____ millimeters 8,000 grams = ____ kilograms

22. ____ centimeters = 18 meters 19,000 milligrams = ____ grams 24 liters = ____ milliliters 56.89 liters = ____ kiloliters

23. Tomorrow you will have a test on converting in the English and Metric systems. Your homework is to study handouts #1, #2, and #3.