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Grade 1 Length Word Problems Metric A

Emma has three rulers of different lengths - a white ruler 15 cm long, a yellow ruler 25 cm long, and a brown ruler 10 cm long. She is asked a series of questions about the lengths of the rulers and lines she can draw by putting them together. The document provides word problems to practice comparing lengths and calculating totals.

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Grade 1 Length Word Problems Metric A

Emma has three rulers of different lengths - a white ruler 15 cm long, a yellow ruler 25 cm long, and a brown ruler 10 cm long. She is asked a series of questions about the lengths of the rulers and lines she can draw by putting them together. The document provides word problems to practice comparing lengths and calculating totals.

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Length (metric units)

Grade 1 Word Problems Worksheet

Emma has three rulers: a white one that is 15 cm long,


a yellow one that is 25 cm long and a brown one
that is 10 cm long.

1. Which ruler is the shortest?

2. Compared to the shortest ruler, how much longer


is the longest ruler?

3. Emma’s pencil case is 20 cm long. Which rulers


cannot fit in her pencil case?

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4. What is the length of the longest line she can
draw when she puts together the white and
yellow rulers?

5. The white ruler breaks into two pieces. If one


piece is 6 cm long, what is the length of the other
piece?

6. Emma buys a blue ruler to replace the broken


white one. The new blue ruler is 18 cm long.
Compared to the white ruler, how much longer is
the new blue ruler?

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Answers

1. Brown ruler

2. 25 – 10 = 15
The longest ruler (yellow) is 15 cm shorter than the
shortest ruler (brown).

3. Yellow ruler

4. 15 + 25 = 40
The length of the longest line she can draw is 40 cm.

5. 15 – 6 = 9
The length of the other piece is 9 cm.

6. 18 – 15 = 3
The new blue ruler is 3 cm longer than the white ruler.

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