Chapter 4 Test

Multiple Choice

1. 
Number US Term Metric Prefix Symbol
1,000,000,000 Billion giga G
1,000,000 Million mega M
1,000 Thousand kilo k
100 Hundred hector h
10 Ten deka da
1 One (no prefix)
1/10 One tenth deci d
1/100 One hundredth centi c
1/1,000 One thousandth milli m
1/1,000,000 One millionth micro u
1/1,000,000,000 One billionth nano n

Leslie bought a flash drive with a capacity of 16 gigabytes (16GB). How many bytes of data can she store
on it?
  a. 160 billion or 160 000 000 000
  b. 16 billion or 16 000 000 000
  c. 16 billionth or 0.000000016
  d. 16 million or 16 000 000

2. Hector drives 10.67 kilometers to work each day. How many meters is that?
  a. 106.7 meters or 106.7 m
  b. 0.1067 meters or 0.1067 m
  c. 106 700 meters or 106 700 m
  d. 10 670 meters or 10 670 m

3. A pharmacist used 40 centigrams of a chemical in compounding a dose of medicine for a veterinarian.
If she had 50 grams of the chemical in stock, how many doses of the medicine could she compound?
  a. 125 doses
  b. 1.25 or 1 1/4 doses
  c. 100 doses
  d. 200 doses

4. Willard’s desk is 1 413 millimeters long. How many meters is that? Round to three places.
  a. 1 413 000 meters or 1 413 000 m
  b. 0.1413 meters or 0.1413 m
  c. 1.413 meters or 1.413 m
  d. 14.13 meters or 14.13 m

5. A ribbon is 1323 millimeters long. How many meters is that? Round to three places.
  a. 0.132 meters or 0.132 m
  b. 13.232 meters or 13.232 m
  c. 1.323 meters or 1.323 m
  d. 1 323 000 meters or 1 323 000 m

6. A customer bought 394 grams of chilies at the store. How many kilograms was that? Round to three
places.
  a. 39.4 kilograms or 39.4 kg
  b. 0.394 kilograms or 0.394 kg
  c. 394,000 kilograms or 394,000 kg
  d. 3.94 kilograms or 3.94 kg

7. 
Metric SI Traditional US
1 kilometer (km) 0.621 mile
1 kilometer (km) 3,280.840 feet
1 hectometer (hm) 328.084 feet
1 dekameter (dam) 32.808 feet
1 meter (m) 39.370 inches
1 meter (m) 3.281 feet
1 meter (m) 1.094 yards
1 decimeter (dm) 3.937 inches
1 centimeter (cm) 0.393 inches
1 millimeter (mm) 0.039 inches
US Traditional Metric SI
1 inch 2.540 centimeters (cm)
1 foot 0.305 meter (m)
1 yard 0.914 meter (m)
1 mile 1.609 kilometers (km)
A football field is 53.33 yards wide. How many meters is that? Round to three places.
  a. 48.744 meters or 48.744 m
  b. 58.343 meters or 58.343 m
  c. 58.344 meters or 58.344 m
  d. 48.743 meters or 48.743 m

8. A driver got stopped for driving 150 kilometers per hour (kmph). What was his speed in miles per hour
(mph)? Round to two places.
  a. 241.35 miles per hour or 241.35 mph
  b. 94.25 miles per hour or 94.25 mph
  c. 240.25 miles per hour or 240.25 mph
  d. 93.15 miles per hour or 93.15 mph

9. A baker has a cake pan that measures 13.25 inches wide. How many centimeters is that? Round to two
places.
  a. 33.65 centimeters or 33.65 cm
  b. 33.66 centimeters or 33.66 cm
  c. 5.22 centimeters or 5.22 cm
  d. 5.21 centimeters or 5.21 cm
10. A laptop is 15 inches wide. How many centimeters is that? Round to two places.
  a. 38.10 centimeters or 38.10 cm
  b. 38.00 centimeters or 38.00 cm
  c. 5.91 centimeters or 5.91 cm
  d. 5.90 centimeters or 5.90 cm

11. A marathon is 26.2 miles long. How many kilometers is that? Round to two places.
  a. 42.15 kilometers or 42.15 km
  b. 16.27 kilometers or 16.27 km
  c. 16.28 kilometers or 16.28 km
  d. 42.16 kilometers or 42.16 km

12. A park is at a distance of 30.3 miles from a stadium. How many kilometers is that? Round to two
places.
  a. 18.83 kilometers or 18.83 km
  b. 18.82 kilometers or 18.82 km
  c. 54.75 kilometers or 54.75 km
  d. 48.75 kilometers or 48.75 km

13. A car has a wheelbase length of 270 centimeters. How many inches is that? Round to two places.
  a. 685.80 inches or 685.80 in.
  b. 107.12 inches or 107.12 in.
  c. 106.11 inches or 106.11 in.
  d. 687.02 inches or 687.02 in.

14. Miguel used 2 419 meters of electric wire in a remodeling project. How many feet of wire did he use?
Round to two places.
  a. 7,936.73 feet or 7,936.73 ft.
  b. 614.43 feet or 614.43 ft.
  c. 7,936.74 feet or 7,936.74 ft.
  d. 614.44 feet or 614.44 ft.

15. Angela was drawing plans for a machine part and specified that the material had to be 32.5
millimeters (mm) wide. How many inches was that? Round to two places.
  a. 1.27 inches or 1.27 in.
  b. 1.26 inches or 1.26 in.
  c. 833.33 inches or 833.33 in.
  d. 12.27 inches or 12.27 in.

16. A garage owner needed to fence in two sides of his storage lot. It was 2,519 feet long and 783 feet
wide. How many meters of fencing did he need to buy? Round to the next larger whole number.
  a. 2 015 meters or 2 015 m
  b. 10 827 meters or 10 827 m
  c. 1 008 meters or 1 008 m
  d. 1 000 meters or 1 000 m

17. Emily wants to put curtains on doors of her living room. The door was 15 feet long and 5 feet wide.
How many meters of curtains did she need to buy? Round to the next larger whole number is 7.
  a. 66 meters or 66 m
  b. 67 meters or 67 m
  c. 5 meters or 5 m
  d. 7 meters or 7 m

18. If David gets 31.2 miles per gallon (mpg) in his truck, how many kilometers (km) could he drive on
8.5 gallons of gasoline? Round to two places.
  a. 426.70 kilometers or 426.70 km
  b. 426.71 kilometers or 426.71 km
  c. 164.82 kilometers or 164.82 km
  d. 170.00 kilometers or 170.00 km

19. A jeweler paid $4,500 for 4 500 centimeters of gold rope. What was the cost per inch? Round to the
nearest cent.
  a. $0.39 per inch or $0.39 per in.
  b. $2.00 per inch or $2.00 per in
  c. $2.54 per inch or $2.54 per in.
  d. $0.40 per inch or $0.40 per in.

20. 
Metric SI Traditional US
1 kiloliter (kL) 264.178 gallons
1 hectoliter (hL) 26.418 gallons
1 dekaliter (daL) 2.642 gallons
1 liter (L) 2.113 pints
1 liter (L) 1.057 quarts
1 liter (L) 0.264 gallon
1 deciliter (dL) 0.211 pint
1 centiliter (cL) 0.338 ounce
1 milliliter (mL) 0.034 ounce
Traditional US Metric SI
1 cup 0.237 liter (L)
1 pint 0.473 liter (L)
1 quart 0.946 liter (L)
1 gallon 3.785 liters (L)
1 ounce 29.573 milliliters (mL)

If diesel fuel sells for $1.05 per liter, how much would a gallon cost? Round to the nearest cent.
  a. $4.00
  b. $3.50
  c. $2.79
  d. $3.98

21. A soup recipe calls for 3.5 cups of chicken stock. How many liters is that? Round to two places.
  a. 14.77 liters or 14.77 L
  b. 0.83 liters or 0.83 L
  c. 14.79 liters or 14.79 L
  d. 1.08 liters or 1.08 liters

22. Erin drinks 5.5 cups of water in a day. How many liters is that? Round to two places.
  a. 23.21 liters or 23.21 L
  b. 23.20 liters or 23.20 L
  c. 1.30 liters or 1.30 L
  d. 1.33 liters or 1.33 L

23. White Knuckle Airlines recently bought 6,750 kiloliters of aviation fuel. How many gallons was that?
Round to two places.
  a. 25.55 gallons
  b. 178,321.15 gallons
  c. 25.50 gallons
  d. 1,783,201.50 gallons

24. Marie’s Catering needed 15 gallons of punch for a wedding reception. She can only find 1-liter bottles
of it for $0.75 per liter. How much will 15 gallons cost her? Round to the nearest whole liter, then
calculate the price to the nearest whole cent.
  a. $42.75
  b. $11.25
  c. $42.58
  d. $3.00

25. An enterprising student bought 12 ounces of inexpensive perfume, repackaged it, and resold it in 15-
milliliter bottles. How many bottles did she have to sell? Round to the nearest whole number.
  a. 24 bottles
  b. 355 bottles
  c. 23 bottles
  d. 354 bottles

26. For a recent fund raiser, Jon’s club sold 150 liters of maple syrup. How many pints was that? Round
to the nearest whole number.
  a. 317 pints
  b. 316 pints
  c. 71 pints
  d. 70 pints

27. A nurse drained 190 milliliters of fluid from a patient’s knee. How many ounces was that? Round to
two places.
  a. 5,6118.87 ounces
  b. 7.00 ounces
  c. 6.46 ounces
  d. 34.56 ounces

28. A standard soft drink can holds 20 ounces. How many milliliters is that? Round to two places.
  a. 0.68 milliliters or 0.68 mL
  b. 591.46 milliliters or 591.46 mL
  c. 492.43 milliliters or 492.43 mL
  d. 32.68 milliliters or 32.68 mL

29. Chef Robert paid $95.20 for 6 gallons of chocolate syrup. What was his cost per liter? Round to the
nearest cent.
  a. $4.19
  b. $15.87
  c. $60.05
  d. $3.99

30. Kate’s Hot Cookies, NOW! paid $18.50 per liter for organic vanilla extract. How much would 12
pints cost? Round to the nearest cent.
  a. $469.09
  b. $222.00
  c. $105.01
  d. $150.01

31. 
Metric SI Traditional US
1 metric tone (t) 1.102 short tons
1 metric ton (t) 2,204.623 pounds
1 kilogram (kg) 2.205 pounds
1 kilogram (kg) 35.274 ounces
1 hectogram (hg) 3.527 ounces
1 dekagram (dag) 0.353 ounce
1 gram (g) 0.035 ounce
1 decigram (dg) 1.543 grains
1 centigram 0.154 grain
1 milligram 0.015 grain
Traditional US Metric SI
1 grain 0.065 gram (g)
1 ounce 28.349 grams (g)
1 pound 453.592 grams (g)
1 pound 0.453 kilogram (kg)
1 short ton 0.907 metric ton (t)

An enterprising student bought 3 ounces of gold at $1,640 per ounce. He then resold it for $80 per gram.
How much profit did he make? Round to the nearest cent.
  a. $5,163.76
  b. $240.00
  c. $2,883.76
  d. $1,883.76

32. Feed The Hungry bought 7 800 metric tons of rice to distribute after a flood. How many pounds is
that? Round to two places.
  a. 3.54 pounds
  b. 7,074.60 pounds
  c. 15,600,000.00 pounds
  d. 17,196,059.40 pounds
33. Marie’s Catering bought 35 pounds of shrimp for a wedding reception. How many grams was that?
Round to two places.
  a. 13,566.87 grams or 13,566.87 g
  b. 15,875.72 grams or 15,875.72 g
  c. 77.18 grams or 77.18 g
  d. 15,785.72 grams or 15,785.72 g

34. A veterinarian recommended feeding a horse 0.90 kilograms of alfalfa pellets each day. How many
pounds is that? Round to the nearest tenth of a pound.
  a. 0.4 pounds
  b. 19.8 pounds
  c. 1.98 pounds rounds to 2.0
  d. 2.205 pounds rounds to 2.2

35. Larry’s doctor told him to eat 50 grams of dark chocolate every day for his health. How many ounces
would that be? Round to two places.
  a. 1.75 ounces
  b. 1,428.57 ounces
  c. 1,417.45 ounces
  d. 1.68 ounces