Deck 4: International System of Units SI: The Metric System

Question 1

If diesel fuel sells for $1.05 per liter, how much would a gallon cost? Round to the nearest cent.​

Answer 1

$3.98​
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Question 2

​Miguel used 2 419 meters of electric wire in a remodeling project. How many feet of wire did he use? Round to two places.

Answer 2

​7,936.74 feet or 7,936.74 ft.
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Question 3

If David gets 31.2 miles per gallon (mpg) in his truck, how many kilometers (km) could he drive on 8.5 gallons of gasoline? Round to two places.​

Answer 3

426.71 kilometers or 426.71 km
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Question 4

A baker has a cake pan that measures 13.25 inches wide. How many centimeters is that? Round to two places.​

Question 5

A garage owner needed to fence in two sides of his storage lot. It was 2,519 feet long and 783 feet wide. How many meters of fencing did he need to buy? Round to the next larger whole number.​

Question 6

A customer bought 394 grams of chilies at the store. How many kilograms was that? Round to three places.​

Question 7

A car has a wheelbase length of 270 centimeters. How many inches is that? Round to two places.​

Question 8

A marathon is 26.2 miles long. How many kilometers is that? Round to two places.​

Question 9

Willard's desk is 1 413 millimeters long. How many meters is that? Round to three places.​

Question 10

A ribbon is 1323 millimeters long. How many meters is that? Round to three places.​

Question 11

A pharmacist used 40 centigrams of a chemical in compounding a dose of medicine for a veterinarian. If she had 50 grams of the chemical in stock, how many doses of the medicine could she compound?

Question 12

Hector drives 10.67 kilometers to work each day. How many meters is that?​

Question 13

Angela was drawing plans for a machine part and specified that the material had to be 32.5 millimeters (mm) wide. How many inches was that? Round to two places.​

Question 14

A jeweler paid $4,500 for 4 500 centimeters of gold rope. What was the cost per inch? Round to the nearest cent.​

Question 15

A park is at a distance of 30.3 miles from a stadium. How many kilometers is that? Round to two places.​

Question 16

A driver got stopped for driving 150 kilometers per hour (kmph). What was his speed in miles per hour (mph)? Round to two places.​

Question 17

A laptop is 15 inches wide. How many centimeters is that? Round to two places.​

Question 18

Leslie bought a flash drive with a capacity of 16 gigabytes (16GB). How many bytes of data can she store on it?

Question 19

A football field is 53.33 yards wide. How many meters is that? Round to three places.​

Question 20

​Emily wants to put curtains on doors of her living room. The door was 15 feet long and 5 feet wide. How many meters of curtains did she need to buy? Round to the next larger whole number.

Question 21

Larry's doctor told him to eat 50 grams of dark chocolate every day for his health. How many ounces would that be? Round to two places.​

Question 22

​A 340-gram bag of coffee sells for $12.99. What is the cost per ounce? Round to the nearest cent.

Question 23

An enterprising student bought 3 ounces of gold at $1,640 per ounce. He then resold it for $80 per gram. How much profit did he make? Round to the nearest cent.​

Question 24

A roofing contractor paid $3.36 per pound for grip-cap roofing nails. How much would 15 kilograms of nails cost? Round to the nearest cent.​

Question 25

A standard soft drink can holds 20 ounces. How many milliliters is that? Round to two places.​

Question 26

Marie's Catering needed 15 gallons of punch for a wedding reception. She can only find 1-liter bottles of it for $0.75 per liter. How much will 15 gallons cost her? Round to the nearest whole liter, then calculate the price to the nearest whole cent.​

Question 27

​The USDA recommends a 6-ounce serving of fruit or vegetables for a school lunch. If the school cafeteria expects to serve 450 lunches, how many grams of peas should they order? Round to two places.

Question 28

For a recent fund raiser, Jon's club sold 150 liters of maple syrup. How many pints was that? Round to the nearest whole number.​

Question 29

A nurse drained 190 milliliters of fluid from a patient's knee. How many ounces was that? Round to two places.​

Question 30

Feed The Hungry bought 7 800 metric tons of rice to distribute after a flood. How many pounds is that? Round to two places.​

Question 31

A soup recipe calls for 3.5 cups of chicken stock. How many liters is that? Round to two places.​

Question 32

Kate's Hot Cookies, NOW! paid $18.50 per liter for organic vanilla extract. How much would 12 pints cost? Round to the nearest cent.​

Question 33

Chef Robert paid $95.20 for 6 gallons of chocolate syrup. What was his cost per liter? Round to the nearest cent.​

Question 34

A veterinarian recommended feeding a horse 0.90 kilograms of alfalfa pellets each day. How many pounds is that? Round to the nearest tenth of a pound.​

Question 35

An enterprising student bought 12 ounces of inexpensive perfume, repackaged it, and resold it in 15-milliliter bottles. How many bottles did she have to sell? Round to the nearest whole number.​

Question 36

White Knuckle Airlines recently bought 6,750 kiloliters of aviation fuel. How many gallons was that? Round to two places.​

Question 37

Marie's Catering bought 35 pounds of shrimp for a wedding reception. How many grams was that? Round to two places.​

Question 38

Brian's Food Distributors contracted with a grower to buy his entire crop of tomatoes at $0.13 per pound. If the grower harvested 3 275 metric tons of tomatoes, how much was he paid? Round to the nearest cent.​

Question 39

Taylor bought 35 kilograms of jelly beans to hand out at orientation. How many 2-ounce bags would she be able to make? Round to the nearest whole number.​

Question 40

Erin drinks 5.5 cups of water in a day. How many liters is that? Round to two places.​

Question 41

​Garcia bought 40 kilograms of gummi candy to hand out at a birthday party. How many 3-ounce bags would she be able to make? Round to the nearest whole number.