Length + rounding - practice problems
Number of problems found: 93
- Handmade scarves
Chelsea is sewing handmade scarves for her sisters and friends. She has 4 ⅚ yards of material and needs ⅞ of a yard for each scarf. How many scarves can she make with the existing material? - Sportwear
A sporting goods manufacturer has 11 2/9 yd of fabric to make soccer shorts. Each pair of soccer shorts requires 3/8 yd of fabric. How many pairs of soccer shorts can be made? How much material will be left over? - Bookshelf 3
How many 1/35-inch thick books can fit on a 1 4/12-inch long bookshelf? - Josiah
Josiah is building a birdhouse and has a piece of wood that is 18 feet long. He needs 1 7/8 foot long pieces. How many smaller pieces can he cut?
- Tie rope
Fred was learning to tie rope. He had 5 1/2 feet of rope. If each knot took up 4/5 of a foot of rope, how many knots could he make? - An electrician 5
An electrician has 4.1 meters of wire. How many strips 7/10 m long can he cut? - A shelf
A shelf is 40 3/4 cm long. Books are 1 9/10 cm wide. How many books will fit on this shelf? - Gopal
Gopal uses 5/7 m of cloth to stitch a shirt. How many shirts can he make with 1 2/7 m of cloth? - Beezlebum's
Beezlebum's Toy Store can't keep its stackable block set in stock! The blocks completely fill a box shaped like a rectangular prism that is 14 inches long, 14 inches wide, and 21 inches tall. The cube-shaped blocks in the set are 3.5 inches along each edg
- FRAMES
Joe is making picture frames out of wood. The length of each frame is 10 inches, and the width is 8 inches. Each piece of wood used to make the frames is 8 feet long. How many pieces of wood will he need to make 10 picture frames? Clue: find the perimeter - Tom is
Tom is making birdhouses to sell at a farmer's market. Each birdhouse requires 4.5 feet of wood planks to build, and he sells them for $19.75 each. How much money can Tom earn at the farmer's market if he has no more than 80 feet of planks to build birdho - The rope
Fred was learning to tie rope. He had 5 1/2 feet of rope. If each knot took up 4/5 of a foot of rope, how many knots could he make? - Your are
You are cutting as many 32 1/4-inch sections as you can out of a board that is 129 inches long. How many pieces can you get out of the board? - Patsy
Patsy makes pillows. She needs 232 inches of trim for the edging. Trim costs $5.50 for a 3-yard spool or $1.10 per foot. What is the least amount Patsy can spend to get the trim she needs? Explain your reasoning.
- A RIBBON
A RIBBON 27 1/3 m long is cut into equal pieces measuring 2 3/4 m each. Find the number of pieces of ribbon cut. - A raft
I want to build a raft, and I have beams with a square section with side a=20cm and length l=2m, wood density 670 kg/m³. I will connect 10 beams - what is the volume of the raft and its weight? How deep will a raft sink in water (water density 1000kg/m³)? - Cross-section 81879
The castle has a length of 4 m and a cross-section in the shape of a square whose side is 15 cm long. Eight such castles must be painted. One kilogram can is enough for 6 m² of coating. How many cans of paint should be bought? - Diameter 81760
Winding drum length 180mm, initial diameter 60mm. Using a 6mm rope with a length of 50m, what will be the diameter of the wound drum with the rope? - Jolene
Jolene is cutting a strip of yarn that is 11/12 inch long pieces that are 2/12 inch long for a collage. How many complete pieces can she make?
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