PRACTICE
- If a family uses one quart of milk per day, how many gallons are used
in one year? - How many 6-ounce boxes of candy can be filled from a 3-pound box
of candy? - How many cubic feet of salt water are in a container that weighs one
ton? One cubic foot of water weighs 64 pounds (ignore the weight of
the container). - If the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, how long (in hours)
does it take the light from the sun to reach the planet Pluto, if it is
2,763,000,000 miles from the sun? - It takes 6 inches of ribbon to make a decorative identification badge.
Find the cost of making 30 badges, if ribbon costs $0.39 per yard?
ANSWERS
- 91.25 gal
- 8 boxes
- 31.25 gal
- 4.13 hr (rounded)
- $1.95
Quiz
- Change 9 feet to inches.
(a) 27 in.
(b) 90 in.
(c) 108 in.
(d) 180 in. - Change 75 feet to yards.
(a) 5 yd
(b) 25 yd
(c) 150 yd
(d) 225 yd - Change 33,264 feet to miles.
(a) 6.3 mi
(b) 18.9 mi
(c) 12.6 mi
(d) 9.45 mi
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