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Grade 5 Online Lessons on Capacity

Grade 5
Topic: Capacity
Subtopics:
1. Millilitre as a unit of measuring capacity
2. Relationship between litres and millilitres
3. Addition of litres and millilitres with and without conversion
4. Subtracting of litres and millilitres with and without conversion
5. Multiplication of litres and milli

Lessons (46)

• 1.    Convert to milliliters:a) 3 lb) 32 lc) 23 ld) 15 ml
  1m 22s

• 2.    Convert to milliliters:a) 3 l 40 mlb) 12 l 305 ml
  1m 19s

• 3.    A bottle can hold 1 l 500 ml of water. Convert the capacity of the bottle into milliliters.
  0m 54s

• 4.    A cow produced 9 l 520 ml of milk. How much milk was this in milliliters?
  1m 9s

• 5.    A jerry can contained 25 l 800 ml of liquid detergent. Change the amount of the detergent into milliliters.
  1m 14s

• 6.    A bucket contained 18 l 200 ml of water. How much is the water in milliliters?
  1m 6s

• 7.    Convert to litres:a) 2 000 mlb) 17 000 ml
  1m 31s

• 8.    Convert to litres and millilitres.a) 1 250 mlb) 2 255 ml
  1m 30s

• 9.    A thermos flask was filled with 1115 ml of coffee. How many litres and millilitres of coffee did it hold?
  1m 14s

• 10.    A bottle is labelled 1 070 ml. What is the capacity of the bottle in litres and millilitres?
  1m 6s

• 11.    Amolo used 2 150 millilitres of water to feed his chicken. How much water in litres and millilitres did the chicken take?
  1m 4s

• 12.    Kyalo filled his car fuel tank with 6 415 ml of petrol. How much was the petrol in litres and millilitres?
  1m 20s

• 13.    Work out:(add litres and millilitres)
  1m 14s

• 14.    Work out: (add litres and millilitres)
  0m 50s

• 15.    A jerrycan holds 5 l 125 ml of water. A basin holds 12 l 890 ml of water. How much water can both hold altogether?
  2m 2s

• 16.    Naeri has a cow and a goat. The cow takes 20 l 450 ml of water every day. The goat takes 5 l 150 ml of water daily. How much water do they take altogether?
  1m 39s

• 17.    Agunga carried water in two containers holding 5 l 800 ml and 10 l 190 ml. How much water was in both containers?
  1m 16s

• 18.    Amina had 1 l 500 ml of milk. She mixed the milk with 3 l 250 ml of water to prepare tea. How much was the tea in litres and millilitres?
  1m 23s

• 19.    Work out:(Adding litres and millilitres)
  3m 15s

• 20.    Add:a) 3 l 750 ml + 5 l 655 mlb) 8 l 450 ml + 13 l 870 ml
  3m 1s

• 21.    Two milk cans contain 25 l 730 ml and 27 l 645 ml of milk. How much milk was in the two containers altogether?
  2m 4s

• 22.    Some 10 l 370 ml of pesticide was mixed with 35 l 840 ml of water. The mixture was used to spray cattle. How much was the mixture in litres and millilitres?
  2m 30s

• 23.    Juma filled his car fuel tank with 13 l 750 ml of petrol. Later in the day he again filled the car with 18 l 575 ml of petrol. How much petrol did he put in the fuel tank?
  2m 23s

• 24.    Work out:(subtracting litres and millilitres)
  2m 10s

• 25.    Work out:a) 19 l 210 ml – 7 l 150 mlb) 49 l 640 ml – 35 l 280 ml
  2m 8s

• 26.    A can holds 3 l 250 ml of paint. A painter used 2 l 150 ml of the paint. How much paint remained in the can?
  1m 15s

• 27.    A jug contains 4 l 750 ml of fruit juice. A family used 3 l 610 ml of the juice. How much juice remained in the jug?
  1m 32s

• 28.    A bottle can hold 2 l 500 ml of detergent. Another bottle can hold 1 l 250 ml of detergent. How much more detergent does the larger bottle hold?
  1m 19s

• 29.    A drum contains 185 l 840 ml of water. Margaret used 45 l 635 ml of the water to wash clothes. How much water remained in the drum?
  1m 39s

• 30.    Subtract: 12 l 650 ml from 20 l 505 ml
  2m 1s

• 31.    Work out:(subtract litres and millilitres)
  2m 37s

• 32.    By how much is 40 l 750 ml more than 29 l 950 ml?
  1m 49s

• 33.    John had two cows. One cow produced 18 l 750 ml of milk. The other cow produced 14 l 840 ml of milk. What was the difference of their production?
  2m 23s

• 34.    A container holds 25 l 500 ml of water. Kadaga drew 6 l 700 ml of the water. How much water remained?
  1m 57s

• 35.    Rotich had 27 l of pesticide to spray his animals. He used 25 l 650 ml to spray cattle. The remaining pesticide was used to spray goats. How much pesticide was used to spray the goats?
  2m 29s

• 36.    Work out:(multiply litres and millilitres)
  4m 11s

• 37.    Multiply:a) 2 l 200 ml by 9b) 28 l 200 ml by 4
  2m 23s

• 38.    Kagai filled eight 1 l 250 ml capacity bottles with paraffin. How much paraffin was in the eight bottles?
  1m 50s

• 39.    A jerrycan contained 4 l 500 ml of liquid soap. How much soap can four such bottles hold?
  1m 37s

• 40.    Njeri fetched water from a community water tank. She used a jerrycan which could hold 19 l 600 ml of water. She made three trips to the water tank. How much water did she fetch?
  2m 17s

• 41.    A fruit vendor sold fruit juice in bottles. The capacity of each bottle was 1 l 250 ml. How much juice did he sell in 12 bottles?
  2m 0s

• 42.    Work out: (divide litres and millilitres)
  4m 55s

• 43.    Divide:a) 8 l 160 ml by 8b) 60 l 900 ml by 29
  2m 27s

• 44.    Thirty nine pupils shared 7 l 800 ml of milk equally. The milk was in packets. How much was in each packet?
  1m 45s

• 45.    A drum had 180 l 600 ml of water. The water was emptied into 8 buckets of the same capacity. What was the capacity of each bucket?
  3m 11s

• 46.    A pump attendant sold 882 l 400 ml of petrol to 40 motorists. The motorists bought the same amount of petrol. How much petrol did each motorist buy?
  2m 28s