🗂️ Measurement Word Problems for K-8

A recipe calls for 2 cups of flour. If you want to make half the recipe, how much flour do you need?

A rectangular garden is 12 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is its perimeter?

A water bottle holds 750 milliliters. How many liters is that?

A room is 15 feet by 12 feet. If carpet costs $3.50 per square foot, how much will it cost to carpet the room?

A recipe needs 3/4 cup of sugar. You want to triple the recipe. How much sugar do you need?

A pool is 25 meters long. How many laps equal 1 kilometer?

A cylindrical water tank has a radius of 2 meters and height of 5 meters. What is its volume? (Volume = π × r² × h, use π ≈ 3.14)

A pencil is 7 inches long. How many centimeters is that? (1 inch = 2.54 cm)

A piece of wire is 2.4 m long. You need pieces that are 15 cm each. How many pieces can you cut?

A bucket holds 12 liters. A bathtub holds 150 liters. How many buckets of water fill the bathtub?

A board is 3.6 meters long. You need to cut off 45 cm from one end. What is the remaining length in meters?

A box is 30 cm × 20 cm × 15 cm. What is its volume in cubic centimeters?

A fish tank holds 40 liters when full. If it's currently 65% full, how many liters are in the tank?

A rectangular pool is 25 m long, 12 m wide, and 2 m deep. How many cubic meters of water does it hold?

A rectangular garden is 12 m by 8 m. You want to build a path 1 m wide around the entire garden. What is the area of the path?

A pool is 25 m long, 10 m wide, and 2 m deep. How many liters of water does it hold? (1 cubic meter = 1000 liters)

A cylindrical tank is 3 m tall with a 2 m diameter. If water costs $0.02 per liter, how much does it cost to fill? (Volume = πr²h, 1 m³ = 1000 L, π ≈ 3.14)

A piece of fabric is 3 yards long. How many inches is that? (1 yard = 36 inches)

You need 2.5 kg of sugar. The store only sells it in 500g bags. How many bags do you need?

A book is 2.5 cm thick. If you stack 8 identical books, how tall is the stack?

A rope is 25 feet long. You cut it into 5 equal pieces. How long is each piece?

A rectangular field is twice as long as it is wide. If the perimeter is 240 meters, what are the dimensions?

A ladder is 25 feet long, leaning against a wall. The base is 7 feet from the wall. How high up the wall does it reach?

A painting is in a frame. The painting is 12 inches by 16 inches. The frame adds 2 inches on all sides. What is the total area of the framed piece?

Two pipes fill a pool. Pipe A fills it in 4 hours, Pipe B in 6 hours. If both work together, how long does it take?

A cylindrical tank is 3 m tall with a 2 m diameter. If water costs $0.02 per liter, how much does it cost to fill? (Volume = πr²h, 1 m³ = 1000 L, π ≈ 3.14)

A book is 2.5 cm thick. If you stack 8 identical books, how tall is the stack?

A fish tank holds 40 liters when full. If it's currently 65% full, how many liters are in the tank?

A rectangular pool is 25 m long, 12 m wide, and 2 m deep. How many cubic meters of water does it hold?

A recipe calls for 2 cups of flour. If you want to make half the recipe, how much flour do you need?

A pencil is 7 inches long. How many centimeters is that? (1 inch = 2.54 cm)

A rectangular garden is 12 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is its perimeter?

A water bottle holds 750 milliliters. How many liters is that?

A recipe needs 3/4 cup of sugar. You want to triple the recipe. How much sugar do you need?

A pool is 25 meters long. How many laps equal 1 kilometer?

A room is 15 feet by 12 feet. If carpet costs $3.50 per square foot, how much will it cost to carpet the room?

A cylindrical water tank has a radius of 2 meters and height of 5 meters. What is its volume? (Volume = π × r² × h, use π ≈ 3.14)

A rectangular garden is 12 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is its perimeter?

A piece of wire is 2.4 m long. You need pieces that are 15 cm each. How many pieces can you cut?

A box is 30 cm × 20 cm × 15 cm. What is its volume in cubic centimeters?

A fish tank holds 40 liters when full. If it's currently 65% full, how many liters are in the tank?

A rectangular pool is 25 m long, 12 m wide, and 2 m deep. How many cubic meters of water does it hold?

A rectangular field is twice as long as it is wide. If the perimeter is 240 meters, what are the dimensions?

A ladder is 25 feet long, leaning against a wall. The base is 7 feet from the wall. How high up the wall does it reach?

A string is 12 inches long. How many feet is that? (1 foot = 12 inches)

A container is 2/3 full of water. If the container holds 24 liters, how much water is in it?

A piece of wood is 36 inches long. How many feet is that? (1 foot = 12 inches)

A bottle contains 500 mL. How many bottles are needed to fill a 2-liter container?

A rectangular prism has dimensions 8 cm × 5 cm × 10 cm. What is its volume?

A glass holds 250 mL. How many glasses can you fill from a 1-liter pitcher?

A tank is 3/4 full with 45 gallons of water. What is the tank's total capacity?

A room's area is 120 square feet. If one wall is 12 feet long, how long is the adjacent wall?

A swimming pool is 30 meters long, 15 meters wide, and 2 meters deep. How many liters of water does it hold?

A recipe calls for 2.5 teaspoons of vanilla. How many teaspoons is that as a fraction?

A rope is 100 cm long. How many millimeters is that? (1 cm = 10 mm)

A circular table has a radius of 2 meters. What is its area? (Area = πr², use π ≈ 3.14)

A shoebox is 30 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm tall. What is its volume?

A triangle has a base of 10 cm and height of 8 cm. What is its area? (Area = ½ × base × height)

A poster is 60 inches tall. How many feet is that? (1 foot = 12 inches)

A backpack weighs 3 kg. A textbook weighs 500 g. What is the total weight in grams?

A rectangle has a perimeter of 50 meters. If one side is 12 meters, what is the length of the other side?

A piece of string is 2 meters long. How many centimeters is that? (1 meter = 100 cm)

A swimming pool is 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, and 2 meters deep. If you fill it to 80% capacity and water costs $0.05 per liter, what is the total cost?

A paint mixture requires 3 parts red paint to 2 parts blue paint to 4 parts white paint. If you want to make 36 liters of the mixture, how much red paint do you need?

A room has dimensions 12 feet by 15 feet. You want to put tile on the floor at $8 per square foot. What is the total cost?

A water bottle holds 16 ounces. If you drink half of it, how many ounces do you have left?

A rectangular table is 5 feet long and 3 feet wide. What is the area of the table?

A swimming pool is 25 meters long. If you swim 4 lengths, how many meters do you swim?

A cube has sides that are 4 inches long. What is the volume of the cube?

A cylindrical tank has a radius of 3 feet and a height of 5 feet. What is the volume? (Use π ≈ 3.14)