"Real life" word problems involving measures for Year 6

  1. A restaurant orders 1,050 bottles of wine. It sells an average of 35 bottles of wine per day. How long does its supply of wine last?

days

  2. A full bottle of squash holds 750 millilitres. To make a jug of squash, you need to add 150ml of squash to each jug. How many bottles of squash will I need to buy in order to make 20 jugs of squash?

bottles

  3. I have used 3.64 kg of potatoes from a 5 kg bag. How many grams do I have left?

grams

  4. There are 260 grams of sweets in a bag. They were sold from a jar containing eight and one quarter times more than the bag. How many grams of sweets does the jar contain?

grams

  5. At the weekend, I took the dog for a 3.5 km walk. I swam 275 metres at the leisure centre and then drove 56 km to visit my parents. How many kilometres did I travel?

km

  6. I cut 72 cm off a plank of wood 1.8 metres long. How much is left (in metres)?

m

  7. I buy 4 shelves measuring 1 metre each. Unfortunately, they are too long and I have trim them to fit. I cut 3.75 cm off each one. How much wood do I throw away altogether?

cm

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  8. 1 ounce of flour is equal to 28 grams. How many grams of flour do I need if the recipe asks for 5 ounces?

grams

  9. One inch is equal to 2.5 cm. There are 12 inches in one foot. If am 5 feet 4 inches tall, what is my height in centimetres?

cm

10. Convert six feet into metres.

metres

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