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.

27.How many tiles 4 dm on a side are needed to cover the surface 8m by 6 m?

28.Find the max. no. of pieces of soap 3 cm by 8 cm by 12cm can be packed in a box 1m long, 9 dm
wide, 50 cm high?
29.How many dm2 of paper is needed to label a can good 12 cm high and 8 cm in radius?
30.A quart of paint can cover around the 10m2 of surface. How many quarts of paint do you need to
paint a wall 12m by 4m with 2 squares windows both 1.3 m on a side?
31.The area of a square is 324 cm2. What is the perimeter of a square whose one side is 1.5 times
that of the first square?
32.The ratio of the width to the length of the rectangle is 3:4. If the area of the rectangle is 588 cm 2 ,
find its length.
33.A dog is tied at one corner of a rectangular lot using a 2.5 m rope. How many m 2 of rectangular lot
can the dog move?
34.If each side of a square is increased by 12%, by how many % is the area increased?
35.A rectangle is 9dm by 5dm. When the length and width are increased by the same amount, the
area is increased by 207 dm2 . Find the new dimensions of the rectangle.
36.A piece of wire 72 cm long was cut into two unequal segments and bent to form two unequal
squares. If the total squares is 212cm 2, what are the lengths of the two segments?
37.A 15-dm diameter tablecloth is to be made. To allow for sewing and overlap, a 20dm diameter
piece was cut from a 2m by 2m material. How much clothing material was wasted?
38.An 18-cm by 24-cm is framed on colored cardboard so that there is a 5 cm margin at the bottom
along the 24 cm side and 3 cm along the other 3 sides. What area of the cardboard can be seen?
39.A gas tank 3m in radius and 45 dm high is full of gas. If the full content is to be transferred into
the smaller gas tanks 2L in capacity how many such tanks are needed?
40.James water hose is 16 m long with an inner radius of 5 cm. How many liters of water could be
within the hose at one time?
41.The cost of a 2-liter bottle of juice drink is 5 times the cost of a can of juice. If a 2-liter bottle costs
P20 more than 3 cans of juice, how much does a 2-liter bottle cost?
42.A swimming pool is 85 m long and 50 m wide. It is 1.2 dm at the shallow end and 2.5 m deep at
the other end. If the surface of the water is 10 cm from the edge of the pool, how many m 3 of
water does it contain?
43.A rectangular tank 4m wide, 500 dm long, contains water to a depth of 80 cm. The water is to be
transferred to an empty tank 8m long, 20 dm wide. Find the depth of the water in the tank.
44.An open box is 15 in long, 8.5 in wide and 7 in high, external dimensions and is made of wood in
thick. Find the volume of the wood the box is made of.
45.The edge of one cube is 4 cm less than the edge of a bigger cube. If the volume of the larger cube
is 784 cm3 more than that of a smaller cube, find each edge of the smaller cube.
46.A circus tent is rectangular enclosure 25m long, 18m wide and 2m high. It is surmounted by a
pyramid-like canvass 6m high. What amount of space is enclosed by the tent?
47.A marble of radius 5 cm is placed inside a cubical box with an interior edge of 10 cm. What volume
of the cube is filled with air?
48.A circular well with a radius of 8 dm is 20 dm deep. What is the volume of the concrete used for
lining the wall is 5 cm thick?
49.The volume of a cone is 100 cm3 . Another cone has the thrice the height and twice the radius of
the first cone. Find the volume of the second one.
50.A rectangular palay bin is 8m long, 6m wide and 10m high. How many cavans of palay can it hold
if a cavan of palay is about 80 dm 3 ?
51.To form a box, equal squares of side 6m were cut from each corner of a rectangular piece of
cardboard 3.8 dm long and 3 dm wide. What is the volume of the box formed?
52.How many balls of r=5cm can be formed from a cylindrical iron rod 1m long and 0.8 dm in
diameter.
53.Sanchez family has a spherical tank of 2.4 m in radius. If the family consumes an average of 1200
liters of water a day, in how ,any days will a full tank last?
54.Mia was born February 16, 1985. How old is she now, (year, month, day)?