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Lessons 7-10		 Measurement


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Lesson 7

  1.

Vickie is wallpapering her bathroom. The room is 8 feet long, 8 feet tall, and 6 feet wide. She is only decorating the walls, not the ceiling or the floor of course.

  • How much wallpaper will Vickie need to wallpaper her bathroom?
  • Explain how you found your answer to this problem using words, numbers, and/or pictures.

    A. 224 square feet
    B. 224 cubic feet
    C.
    224 feet
    D.
    224 square yards

Write your explanation for how you found the answer for this one.

  2.

Matt's fence goes around his backyard and measures 35 yards by 20 yards. Use the grid below to draw the outline of Matt's fence. Remember to label the dimensions and use the boxes of the grid to help you represent a yard(s).

 

  3.

Match the following with how each is measured.

A
B
C
  

A. linear units

B. square units

C. cubic units

1. Area

2. Volume

3. Perimeter
       

Lesson 8

  4.
Tish travels 675 miles in 9 hours. Find her rate in miles per hour.
A. 60 mph
B. 65 mph
C.
70 mph
D.
75 mph
  5.
Wendy is building a trunk to hold all of the items she plans to take on an upcoming trip to Europe. She figures that a trunk with a volume of 24 cubic feet should be large enough to hold her belongings. If she builds the trunk so that is is 4 feet long and 2 feet wide, how tall should she make the trunk so that it has the desired volume?
A. 3 feet
B. 5 feet
C.
7 feet
D.
2 feet
 6.

Find the area of the triangle.

A. 14.26 sq. mi.
B. 25.53 sq. mi.
C. 51.06 sq. mi.
D. 26 mi.
Lesson 9
  7.

Hank is going to carpet all the rooms in the downstairs of his house. Hank needs to order the amount of carpet he needs. Should Hank use estimation or an exact measurement when he orders the carpet? Explain your answer using words, numbers, and/or pictures.
8.

Tony just bought a gift for Tami for her birthday. He needs to wrap the present with birthday wrapping paper. The present is in a box that is 20 inches long, 8 inches wide, and 10 inches high. Explain how Tony can obtain an estimated amount of wrapping paper so that he is sure to have enough paper. Be specific and use words, numbers, and/or pictures to help you.

Lesson 10

  9.

Samantha wants to know how far it is from her house to her best friends house. What unit of measurement is appropriate for Samantha to measure the distance between the two houses?

A. Inches
B. Feet
C.
Yards
D.
Miles
10.
Lori and Lisa had to measure the distance around their classroom. Lori used a ruler to measure while Lisa used her feet to measure the distance around the room. Which measurement will be closer to the exact distance around the room? Explain your answer using words, numbers, and/or pictures.
11.

When it is 9:00 P.M. in Paris, it is 3:00 P.M. in New York City and 12:00 noon in San Diego. Joan and her family are on vacation in Paris, and wish to call home to San Diego. If they want their call to reach San Diego at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, at what time in Paris should they make the call? Explain in detail how you found your answer using words, numbers, and/or pictures.
12.
Maxine paid her restaurant check of $3.00 by using the same number of half-dollars and quarters. How many of each did she use? Explain in detail how you found your answer using words, numbers, and/or pictures.

Remember to complete #2 on the printed page before turning in to your instructor.

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