Comparing Weights Worksheet With Answers (Page 5 of 6) in pdf

Comparing Weights Worksheet With Answers Page 5

Practice

• • • • • • • • • • Using Liquid Measurements

in Word Problems

Directions: Use the information on page 25 to help you do the following problems.

1. A spaghetti recipe calls for 8 cups of water. How many quarts of water are needed? __________

2. A cook needed to add 3 milliliters of food coloring to each cup of water. How much food

coloring would she need for a quart of water? __________

3. A scientist added 5 mL of acid to a cup of water. How much would she need for a gallon of

water? __________

4. A chemistry student was adding 7 milliliters of ammonia to a cup of vinegar. Using the same

formula, how much ammonia would she add to 3 gallons of vinegar? __________

5. A sixth grader found that 20 milliliters of water would sit on the head of a penny without spilling.

How many penny heads could he cover with a liter of water? __________

6. A fifth grade student wanted to add 9 milliliters of dish soap to each cup of water in her 3-gallon

container. How many milliliters did she add to the 3 gallons of water? __________

7. Your best friend wanted to make a soap solution by adding 3 fluid ounces of soap to each pint of

water. How much soap did she add to a gallon of water? __________

8. You decided to make a soapy water solution using 12 milliliters of water to every cup of water.

How many milliliters did you add to 2 gallons of water? __________

9. One of your classmates was able to place 30 milliliters of water on the head of a quarter. How

many quarter heads could she cover with a gallon of water? __________

10. Your neighbor wants to give 5 gallons of water to her roses using a 1-liter watering container.

How many liters will she use? __________

11. A painter’s bucket will hold 10 cups of paint. How many times will he fill his bucket to use

5 gallons of paint? __________

12. A custodian uses 1.5 cups of floor cleaner for every quart of water. How many cups of cleaner

will he use with 8 gallons of water? __________

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