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Lesson 2 Calculate With Metric Measures 2019

The document contains word problems involving metric measurements and conversions. Questions involve calculating distances run on a track, amounts of liquid in containers, masses of objects, and scaling recipes. Metrics such as meters, liters, grams, and kilograms are used throughout.

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Lesson 2 Calculate With Metric Measures 2019

The document contains word problems involving metric measurements and conversions. Questions involve calculating distances run on a track, amounts of liquid in containers, masses of objects, and scaling recipes. Metrics such as meters, liters, grams, and kilograms are used throughout.

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A cat measures 76 cm from its nose to its tail.


Calculate with metric measures

1 An Olympic racetrack is 400


metres all the way around.

a) Jack runs 2 laps. 76 cm

How far does Jack run? The length of a lion is 3 times as long as a cat.

m How long is a lion?


Give your answer in metres.
b) Rosie runs 3 laps.
How far does Rosie run?
Write your answer in metres and kilometres.

m km

c) Amir runs 4 km.


How many laps does Amir run?
4 The length of a swimming pool is 25 m.
Rosie swims 600 m.
Tommy swims 1 km.
d) Eva runs 10 km.
How many more lengths did Tommy swim than Rosie?
How many laps does Eva run?

2 Mo has 2 litres of orange juice.


He drinks 200 ml.
He then shares the rest equally between 6 glasses.
How much orange juice is poured into each glass? Compare methods with a partner.

© White Rose Maths 2019


5 A bag of apples weighs 350 g. 8 A bag contains 200 sweets.

Each sweet weighs 1.5 g.


The bag itself weighs 16 g.
A box can hold 12 bags
of apples. Huan has some bags of sweets. The total mass is 1.264 kg.
How many bags of sweets does Huan have?

What would be the mass of 20 boxes of apples?
Give your answer in kilograms.

9 Here is a recipe for 8 cupcakes.


a) Complete the recipe for 24 cupcakes. Cupcakes (makes 8)

6 Dani is collecting rainwater in a 1-litre jug. 100 g butter


On Monday, she collects 220 ml of water. Cupcakes (makes 24) 100 g sugar
On Tuesday, she collects a quarter of a litre of water. 2 eggs
butter 1 tsp vanilla extract
At the end of Wednesday, Dani sees she only needs another
120 g flour
0.1 litres until her jug is full. sugar 4 tbsp milk
How much water did Dani collect on Wednesday?
Jack holding a suitcase and standing on a bathroom
(household) weighing scale eggs

vanilla extract

flour

milk
7 Jack wants to find out the mass of his suitcase.
Jack weighs 34.5 kg.
b) Mo has half a kilogram of butter and plenty of the
He steps onto the scales and it shows 47 kg other ingredients.
and 200 g.
What is the greatest number of cupcakes he can make using
How heavy is his suitcase? this recipe?

© White Rose Maths 2019

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