A lorry carries 7.2 tonnes of sand from the mining area to the industrial site. On the way 230 kg of sand either fall off or blow away. What mass of sand will remain by the end of the journey? Give the answer in tonnes.

Mr. Ogango from Kenya visited Tanzania. He had 5,000 Kenya shillings (Kshs) and wanted to change the money into US dollar. If 1 US dollar was equivalent to 2500 Tanzania shillings (Tshs) and Ksh 1 was equivalent to Tshs 20, how much US dollars did he get?

Juma walked a distance of 1 kilometre and 300 metres from his home to a shop. He then walked further 0.85 kilometres to the stadium to greet his friend who was watching football. Calculate the total distance in metres Juma travelled.

  Mukasa received Ushs 1,000,000 from his sister in Uganda. How much did he get in Tanzanian currency (Tshs) if one Ugandan shilling was equivalent to 0.65 Tanzanian shilling? 

If an object travels at 5 metres per second, how many metres does it travel in one hour?

Sheila works 8 hours per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 6 hours per day on Tuesday and Thursday. She does not work on Saturday and Sunday. She earns Tshs 32,400 in those working days per week. How much does she earn per hour?

Find the value of 500 cm +3150 mm + 3.5 m. (Give the answer in metres).

A piece of length 7.42 m is cut off from a string that is 13.5 m long. If the remaining part of the string is divided into equal pieces of length 32 cm, how many pieces are there?

.Write 375 grams as a fraction of 3 kilograms.

Jane requires a piece of cloth of 1.8 meters long to make her dress? whereas Mary requires a piece of a cloth which is one and a half times as long as Jane’s. How long is Mary's piece of cloth?

How many grams are there in 0.00912 tones

A container holds 20 litres of milk. If 50 bottles of milk are needed to fill the container, how many millilitres of milk does each bottle hold? (Use 1 litre = 1,000 millilitres).

An empty bottle weighs 115 grams. If 45 tablets each weighing  gram are put in the bottle, what is the total weight?

Calculate the following:

(i)(70kg 49g) - (38kg 95g)

(ii)(6km 4 m) - (4 km 11 m)

13.Write 750 grams as a fraction of 5 kilograms.

Anna walks 24km every day. Find, in metres, the distance she walks in 2 days.

(i) A dog, a cat and a goat have masses of 30.7 kg, 13.44 kg and 18.26 kg respectively. Calculate the total mass of all three animals, giving the answer to the nearest whole number. 

(ii) Round off the mass of dog to the nearest ones, the mass of cat correctly to one decimal place and goat to 3 significant figures. 

(i) Add the following units: 

(ii) Convert the answer you obtained in 2(b)(i) into meters

Change 15 km into centimeters.

Subtract: