Units Worksheet
12inches

1 foot
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Convert 5 centimeters into inches
Given: 2.54 cm ≈ 1 inch
1.)
2.) Should your answer be in
“centimeters” or in “inches”?
3.)
5cm 1inch
≈

1
2.54cm
* cross out the units cm
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Convert 5 centimeters into inches
Given: 0.394 inches ≈ 1 cm
4.) Should your answer be in
“centimeters” or in “inches”?
5.)
5cm 0.394inches

≈
1
1cm
* cross out the units cm
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Try these:
6.) Convert 3 meters into feet
Given 3.3 feet ≈ 1 meter
7.) Convert 3 meters into feet
Given 0.303 meters ≈ 1 foot
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9.) Convert 13 cups into liters.
2 cups = 1 pint,
2 pints = 1 quart,
Given: 4 quarts = 1 gallon,
3.79 liters ≈ 1 gallon
13cups 1 p int 1quart 1gallon 3.8liters
≈



1
2cups 2 p int s 4quarts 1gallon
10.) Convert 3 miles into centimeters.
Given: 3 feet = 1 yard,
1 mile = 1760 yards, 12 inches = 1 foot, 0.394 inches ≈ 1 cm
11.) Wuggie blinks 15 times every 2 minutes. How many blinks is that
per year?
15blinks
 -------- ● -------- ● -------- =
2 min
12.) A faucet drips once every 2 seconds. How many drops is that per
year?
13.) Haley drives at an average of 45 miles per hour. What is her speed
in yards per second? (see #10 for help)
14.) For every 12 kibs, there are 5 dats. For every 7 dinks, there are 2
dats. For every cham, there are 10 dinks. How many kibs are there
per cham?
15.) A car can drive 80 miles on $6 worth of gasoline. If 1 gallon of
gasoline costs $2.50, find how far the car can travel in kilometers on 1
liter of gasoline. Given: 3.79 liters ≈ 1 gallon AND 1 mile ≈ 1.6 km
16.) When Bryce goes to work, he drives at an average speed of 65 miles per hour. It
8.) Convert 6 miles into feet.
Given: 5280 feet = 1mile.
takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes for Bryce to arrive at work. His car travels about 25
miles per gallon of gas. If gas costs $3.65 per gallon, how much money does Bryce
spend to travel each mile to work?
The Metric System
King
Kilo-
Henry
Hecto-
Died
Deca-
gram/liter/meter Drinking Chocolate Milk
DeciCentiMilli-
17.) 1 gram = ______________ centigrams
20.) 3 centimeters = ______________ meters
18.) 2.7 kiloliters = ______________ liters
21.) 4.52 deciliters = ______________ milliliters
19.) .67 hecometers = ______________ meters
22.) 56,732 milligrams = ______________ grams
23.) d = vt
the units for v are “cm/s”
the units for t are “s”
What are the units for d?
v
t
the units for v are “m/s”
the units for t are “s”
What are the units for a?
26.) The formula for density d is
d = m/V , where m is mass and v is
volume. If mass is measured in
kilograms and volume is measured
in cubic meters, what is the unit
rate for density?
24.) a =
27.) The tension caused by a wave
moving along a string is found
2
using the formula T = mv
29) A rectangle has an area of 12m2
and a width of 400 cm. What is the
length of the rectangle?
A. 3 cm
B. 30 cm
C. 300 cm
D. 3000 cm
30.) A rectangular prism has a
volume of 2 m3, a length of 40 cm,
and a width of 50 cm. What is the
height of the prism?
L
25.) C = kmt
the units for C are “cal”
the units for m are “pounds”
the units for t are “minutes”
What are the units for k?
If m is the mass of the string in
grams, L is the length of the string
in centimeters (cm), and v is the
velocity of the wave in cm per
second, what is the unit of the
tension of the string, T?
A. gram-cm per second squared
B. cm per second squared
C. grams per cm-second squared
D. cm squared per second
31.) What is the area of a circle
with a circumference of 43.98226
inches? (Use 3.14159 for π.)
A. 153.44029 in2 B. 153.93791 in2
C. 153.9325 in2 D. 153.9394 in2
32.) Convert 60 miles per hour to
feet per minute if there are 5280 feet
in a mile.
* Background info about #25:
The number of calories a person burns
doing an activity can be approximated by
multiplying the k coefficient (which
depends on the activity) by the person’s
weight by how many minutes the person
did that activity.
28.) Mike’s box is 3 cm long, 4 cm
wide, and 7 cm high. What’s the
volume of his box? (include units)
33.) Convert 60 kilometers per
hour to meters per minute