Students convert between units of weight (ounces, pounds, tons) and mass (grams, kilograms) within the same measurement system. They use multiplication and division with appropriate conversion factors.
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Convert Units of Weight and Mass
Grade 5 · Measurement Conversions · question 1 of 3
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What is the scale's reading in kilograms?
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Weight can be renamed with ounces or pounds in the same system.
Pounds are larger units, so the number gets smaller.
1 gallon is 4 quarts, so 2 gallons are 8 quarts and 3 gallons are 12 quarts. The quarts row is the gallons row times 4: 6 gallons are 6 × 4 = 24 quarts.
A gallon holds more than a quart, so it takes 4 quarts to hold as much as 1 gallon.
Each gallon more adds 4 quarts more, so every column of the table is times 4.
Two steps work the same way: 1 gallon is 4 quarts and 1 quart is 4 cups, so 1 gallon is 4 × 4 = 16 cups.
To change to the smaller unit, multiply by the factor; to change to the bigger unit, divide by it.
Adding the factor instead of multiplying, and saying 2 gallons are 2 + 4 = 6 quarts.
Every gallon is 4 quarts, so 2 gallons are 2 × 4 = 8 quarts.
14 pounds = ___ ounces — 224. Every pound is 16 ounces, so 14 of them is 14 times 16: 224.
A bag of apples weighs five pounds. How many ounces is that?
We need to convert five pounds into ounces.
Here's our key fact: one pound equals sixteen ounces.
Pounds are bigger than ounces, so to find ounces we multiply by sixteen.
Write five times sixteen.
Five times ten is fifty.
Five times six is thirty.
Fifty plus thirty is eighty.
So five pounds equals eighty ounces. Great work!
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