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Class 4 Primary Measurement — practice questions

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A child measures a line with a scale after guessing its length. The unit on the scale is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Birbal made Akbar's line shorter without erasing it, by drawing beside it a line that was:Read the answer and worked solution →A left arm is 5 cm long. An arm 1 cm longer than it measures:Read the answer and worked solution →A cup is 8 cm tall. A cup 1 cm shorter measures:Read the answer and worked solution →A broom is 60 cm long. A broom half as long measures:Read the answer and worked solution →A hair is 12 cm long. A hair of double the length measures:Read the answer and worked solution →One of the tallest people in the world was 272 cm tall, double Jhumpa's height. Jhumpa is:Read the answer and worked solution →The number of centimetres in one metre is:Read the answer and worked solution →The number of metres in one kilometre is:Read the answer and worked solution →A race of 1500 metres is the same as a race of:Read the answer and worked solution →A race of 3000 metres is the same as a race of:Read the answer and worked solution →A marathon covers about how many kilometres?Read the answer and worked solution →A stadium track measures how many metres in one round?Read the answer and worked solution →Ten rounds of a 400 metre stadium track add up to:Read the answer and worked solution →Dhanu jumps 3 m 40 cm and Gurjeet jumps 20 cm less. Gurjeet's jump is:Read the answer and worked solution →Gurjeet jumps 3 m 20 cm and Gopi jumps 5 cm less. Gopi's jump is:Read the answer and worked solution →The men's world high jump record is 2 m 45 cm and Chandra Pal cleared 2 m 17 cm. The gap is:Read the answer and worked solution →The men's world long jump record is 8 m 95 cm. To reach a full 9 metres it needs another:Read the answer and worked solution →The women's world long jump record is 7 m 52 cm, which is nearly:Read the answer and worked solution →Devi Prasad must run 2 km daily on a park boundary of 400 metres. He must complete:Read the answer and worked solution →In a 100 metre race, Arundhati is 6 metres from the finish. She has already run:Read the answer and worked solution →Of two dots on a page, the pair with the greatest gap between them is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the length unitsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the race distancesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the measuring gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the long distancesRead the answer and worked solution →Metres or centimetresRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the measurementsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the answerRead the answer and worked solution →Length bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A child measures a line with a scale after guessing its length. The unit on the scale is the:

  1. Centimetre
  2. Kilogramme
  3. Millilitre
  4. Temperature
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Correct answer: A. Centimetre

1. Short lengths are measured on a school scale. 2. The marks on it count one unit each. 3. That unit is the centimetre. _Source: syllabus Mathematics Class IV, Chapter 2, Long and Short._

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Birbal made Akbar's line shorter without erasing it, by drawing beside it a line that was:

  1. Dotted
  2. Longer
  3. Shorter
  4. Curved
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Correct answer: B. Longer

1. He was not allowed to touch the first line. 2. A longer line beside it makes it look short. 3. So he drew a longer line. _Source: syllabus Mathematics Class IV, Chapter 2, Long and Short._

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A left arm is 5 cm long. An arm 1 cm longer than it measures:

  1. 6 cm
  2. 4 cm
  3. 7 cm
  4. 3 cm
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Correct answer: A. 6 cm

1. Add one centimetre to the given length. 2. Five plus one is six. 3. So it measures 6 cm. _Source: syllabus Mathematics Class IV, Chapter 2, Long and Short._

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