Problem Solving Questions in Measurement
Problem Solving Questions in Measurement
Problem Solving Questions in Measurement
1. Mr. A drove 40kph for 2 hours then 55kph for another 1 3/5 hours. Find his average speed for the
whole journey.
2. Mark has a piece of rope 9 3/4 meters long. How many pieces 1 2/3 dm long can be cut from it?
Find the length of what remains.
3. A drain pipe is cut in half and half is used. Then, one-fifth of the remaining pipe is cut-off and used.
What fraction of the
pipe remains?
4. Divide 1870 into three parts such that half of the first part, one-third of the second part And onesixth of the third part are equal. Find the length of each division.
5. At JMs pizza parlor a slice of Pizza is 1/9 of the whole pizza. JM noted that there was 2/3 of a pizza
left. A customer asked for 8 slices. Can JM be able to serve the customer without baking a new
one? Why or why not?
6. A pizza was divided into 2 parts in a ratio 3:5. The smaller part was then divided in the ratio 2:3. If
the smaller of the two latter pieces weighed 60 grams, what is the weight of the whole pizza?
7. Mark, Ray and Carlo shared 1200 marbles in a ratio 4:5:7. During a game, Mark won 4/15 of
Carlos marbles while Ray lost 2/25 of his marbles to Carlo. At the end of the game, what is the
ratio of the number of marbles each boy have?
8. How many books 2 3/4 cm thick can be placed in a shelf 1.5m long?
9. A mans step is 3 4/5 dm long, how many steps would it take him to cover a 1 km distance?
10.A rectangular field, 55 2/3 m by 45 1/5 m is to be fenced with barbed wire. If four strands of wire
are to be placed around it, how many meters of barbed wire will be needed?
11.How many cm. does the tip of the minute hand 1.5 dm. long travels in 50 minutes?
12.How many circles of r=6cm can be cut from a piece of cartolina 15 dm long and 10 dm wide?
13.A circular lagoon is 98 m in diameter. If you jog around it 5 times, how many km will that distance
be? If you will cross the lagoon along its diameter 5 times, how much shorter or longer will this be
than going around its circumference 5 times?
14.A square and a rectangle are placed side by side. If each side of the square is 5.4 cm and the
rectangle 14cm. long is as wide as the square, what is the perimeter of the resulting figure?
15.The ratio of the length to width of a rectangle is 7:8. If its perimeter is 130 dm, find its length.
16.Peter wants to fence the frontage of his lot by using posts 4m apart. However, he found the posts
too expensive, so he bought 5 fewer posts and spaced them 5m apart. How long is the frontage of
his lot?
17.Mike hit a homerun during a softball game. If he ran a distance of 92m, what was the distance
between opposite bases?
18.Find the distance between opposite corners of a room 8m long, 6m wide and 5m high?
19.How high is an equilateral triangle whose one side is:
a.) 12 cm
b.) 18 cm
c.) 20 cm
20.Find the area of the equilateral triangle from the previous question.
21.If your step is 3.5 dm, your school is 1 km from your house, and you can take 75 steps in a minute,
how long will it take you to reach the school without stopping?
22.One side of a triangle is 16 dm. The second is 32 mm longer than the first while the third is 25 cm
shorter than the first. Find the perimeter of the triangle.
23.Mandy jogged around the perimeter of a rectangular lot and covered 110 meters in one turn. What
could possibly be the area of the lot (assuming both measures are whole numbers)?
24.The length of a rectangle is longer by 18 cm than a side of a square which is a 16 dm. If the width
of the rectangle is 10 dm, what is the perimeter of the rectangle?
25.The length of a rectangle is 1 cm more than twice the width. If the length of the rectangle is
decreased by 2 cm and the width is decreased by 1 cm, the perimeter is 26 cm. Find the length
and width of the original rectangle.
26.A square animal pen and another pen shaped like an equilateral triangle have equal perimeters.
Find the length of each sides of each pen if the sides of the triangular pen are 16 less than twice a
side of the square pen.