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Grade 5 Length Word Problems A

This document contains 6 word problems involving measurements of length using customary units such as inches, feet, yards. The problems involve calculating quantities such as the number of presents that can be wrapped with a given amount of ribbon, the width of a parking lot, the height of trees, the length of driveways, the amount of string left on a kite spool, and the number of yards of tape in a box.

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Grade 5 Length Word Problems A

This document contains 6 word problems involving measurements of length using customary units such as inches, feet, yards. The problems involve calculating quantities such as the number of presents that can be wrapped with a given amount of ribbon, the width of a parking lot, the height of trees, the length of driveways, the amount of string left on a kite spool, and the number of yards of tape in a box.

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Length word problems (customary units)

Grade 5 Word Problems Worksheet

1. 9 inches of ribbons are needed for wrapping each present.


How many presents can be wrapped with 6 yards of ribbons?

2. Each parking spot is 8 feet wide. A parking lot has 24 parking


spots side by side. What is the width (measured in yards) of the
parking lot?

3. There are two trees in a park. The taller tree is 6 feet 8 inches.
The shorter tree is 6 inches shorter than half the height of the
taller tree. What is the height of the shorter tree?

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4. The driveway in front of the brown house is 35 feet long and the
driveway in front of the red house is 7 yards and 9 feet long.
Which house has a longer driveway? By how much?

5. Eric’s kite spool had 100 yards of string. At first, he let out 50 feet
of string. Then, the kite rose for another 16 yards. How much
string was left on the spool?

6. Each roll of tape is 30.5 feet long. A box contains 454 rolls of
tape. In total, there are about ___________ yards of tape.

a. 500
b. 5,000
c. 15,000

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Answers

1. 6 yards = 216 inches


216 ÷ 9 = 24
24 presents can be wrapped with 6 yards of ribbons.

2. 8 x 24 = 192
192 feet = 64 yards
The width of the parking lot is 64 yards.
1
3. 6 feet 8 inches × – 5 inches
2
= 3 feet 4 inches – 5 inches
= 2 feet 16 inches – 5 inches
= 2 feet 11 inches
The shorter tree is 2 feet 11 inches tall.

4. 7 yards 9 feet = 30 feet


The driveway in front of the red house is 30 feet long.
The brown house has a longer driveway, and it is longer by 5 feet.
2
5. 50 feet = 16 yard
3
2 1
100 − 16 − 16 = 67
3 3
1
67 yards of string were left on the spool.
3

6. 30.5 x 454 = 13,847 feet


13,847 feet = 4,615.66 yards
Answer is (b).

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