Starter quiz
- In this list of common metric units of length which one is missing? millimetre, centimetre, metre, ______.
- 'kilometre' ✓
- 1 km = 1000 m, 1 m = 100 cm. What is 5 400 000 cm in kilometres?
- 5400 km
- 540 km
- 54 km ✓
- 5.4 km
- 0.54 km
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- The scale on a map is 1:5 000 000. The distance between two places on the map is 5 cm. What is the distance in real life in kilometres?
- 2.5 km
- 25 km
- 250 km ✓
- 2500 km
- 25 000 km
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- The scale on a map is 1:500 000. The distance between two places is 86 km. What is the distance on the map?
- 17.2 cm ✓
- 172 cm
- 17.2 km
- 172 m
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- The length of a pencil is 2.5 inches. Convert this into centimetres given that 1 inch = 2.54 cm.
- '6.35 cm' ✓
- The distance between London and Manchester is 200 miles. Convert this into kilometres given that 5 miles = 8 km.
- '320 km' ✓
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