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5. Solve the following word problems:

a. One pencil box weighs 275 g. Find the weight of 28 pencil
boxes in kg and g.
b. Sunaina bought 3 kg 450 g of apples, 2 kg 500 g of mangoes and 1 kg 125 g of

grapes. What is the total weight of the fruits bought by Sunaina?

c. Anand weighs 48 kg 250 g. Sonam weighs 8 kg 125 g less than
Anand. Find the weight of Sonam.
d. A box contains 36 balls, and the total weight of all the balls is

5580 g. Find the weight of one ball in mg.
6. A rice sack weighs 9 kg 750 g. After some rice is used, the new weight is 3 kg
750 g. How much rice is used?

7. A box of books weighs 14 kg 750 g. After removing some books, the new weight
is 10 kg 500 g. What is the weight of the books removed?

8. A truck delivers 17 kg 800 g in the morning, 14 kg 370 g in the afternoon and 23
kg 400 g in the evening. What is the total amount of supplies delivered?
9. A restaurant owner uses 15 kg 250 g of onions on Monday, 23 kg 400 g on Tuesday,

5 kg 125 g on Wednesday. What is the total weight of the onions used in 3 days?
10. Nilesh is a scrap dealer. He buys newspapers at the rate of `12 per kg. How
much does he pay for 16 kg 500 g of newspapers?

11. The cost per kg of some grocery items is given in the following table. Complete
the table.

Item Weight Cost per kg Total cost
Rice 12 kg 500 g `60
Flour 7 kg 250 g `40

Sugar 5 kg `45
Chana dal 3 kg 600 g `70
Besan 4 kg `60
Jaggery 1 kg 400 g `50

MEASuREMEnT of CAPACITy

Millilitre (mL) and litre (L) are units of capacity. Litre (L) is the base unit of capacity.
To measure smaller quantities of liquids, we use millilitres (mL). It is smaller than a
litre. To measure larger quantities of liquids, we use litres (L).

There are some other units of capacity such as kilolitre, hectolitre, decalitre, decilitre
and centilitre.

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