Measurement Conversion Worksheets Grade 5

1. Aroha is preparing traditional woven flax baskets for a school cultural festival. She has a long strip of flax that measures 3 meters 75 centimeters. She needs to cut the strip into smaller pieces that are each 15 centimeters long to weave the basket rims. How many smaller pieces can Aroha cut from the flax strip?
2. Liam is building a rectangular planter box for his garden. The box measures 1.5 meters long, 0.8 meters wide, and 0.6 meters high. He needs to fill it with soil, but the soil is sold in bags that contain 0.072 cubic meters each. How many bags of soil does Liam need to completely fill his planter box?
3. Liam is building a rectangular planter box for his garden. The box measures 1.5 meters in length, 0.8 meters in width, and 0.6 meters in height. He needs to fill it with soil. How many cubic meters of soil will Liam need to completely fill the planter box?

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1. Emma is helping her family paint their living room. They need to cover a wall that measures 4.2 meters wide and 2.8 meters high. The paint can says that one liter covers 7 square meters. How many liters of paint will Emma need to cover the entire wall?
2. Noah is helping his mom set up a lemonade stand. They need to make a large batch of lemonade using a recipe that calls for 3 liters 750 milliliters of water. Noah's water pitcher only shows measurements in milliliters. How many milliliters of water does Noah need to measure out?
3. Liam is building a model train set. He has a track that is 3 meters 45 centimeters long. He wants to add another piece of track that is 1 meter 87 centimeters long. What is the total length of the track in centimeters when he connects them?

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1. Liam is building a rectangular garden bed that measures 3.5 meters long and 2.25 meters wide. He needs to buy enough soil to fill the entire garden bed to a depth of 0.4 meters. How many cubic meters of soil should Liam purchase?
2. A rectangular prism has a length of 15.2 cm, a width of 9.8 cm, and a height of 6.5 cm. If you were to draw this prism and count all the visible edges, what would be the total length of all the edges combined?
3. A rectangular prism-shaped shipping container has a length of 2.5 meters, a width of 1.8 meters, and a height of 3.2 meters. What is the volume of the container in cubic centimeters? (Remember: 1 meter = 100 centimeters)

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