Far and Near

Identify the appropriate units for measuring each of the following: Height of India Gate, Length of a handkerchief, Depth of a well, Length of a mobile phone, Length of an elephant's trunk, Distance between two buttons on a shirt

Ritika is comparing the lengths of different rods. Compare them using <, =, > signs.

Water stations are to be arranged after every 500 m. How many water stations must be set up? At what positions from the starting point will these water stations be placed?

Children need to stand at an interval of 300 m to direct the runners. How many children are needed? At what positions from the starting point will the children be standing?

Red and blue flags are to be placed alternately at every 50 m. How many red and blue flags are needed till the finish line?

The total length of the route from Dibrugarh to Kanniyakumari is _____ km.

The distance between Vijayawada and Jalpaiguri Road is _____.

Distance between Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam is _____.

Which two stations are farther apart—Guwahati and Dimapur or Bhubaneswar and Jalpaiguri Road?

What is the distance between Guwahati and Coimbatore JN?

Draw lines of the following lengths in your notebook using a scale: 5 cm 5 mm, 3 cm 6 mm, 8 cm 3 mm, 36 mm, 67 mm. How did you draw lines of lengths 36 mm and 67 mm?

Use your understanding from above to fill in the blanks appropriately.

Rani has two red-coloured ribbon rolls, one of length 3 m 75 cm and another 2 m 25 cm long. How much ribbon does she have?

The distance from Bhopal to Sanchi is 48 km 700 m. Bhadbhada Ghat waterfall is on the way, and 17 km 900 m away from Bhopal. How far is Sanchi from the waterfall?

Gulmarg Gondola in Gulmarg, Kashmir is the second longest and second highest cable car in the world. It is divided into two sections. The first section covers 2 km 300 m and the second section covers 2 km 650 m. What is the total distance covered by the cable car?

Anita is making an embroidery on the border of a sari. She needs a 1 m long thread to embroider a 50 cm sari. How much thread would she need for a 5 m sari border? A 1 m long thread costs ₹50. How much money will be needed to buy the thread?

A road 12 km 600 m long is being laid in a town. The workers lay an equal length of road each day, and complete the work in 6 days. How much road-laying work is done on each day?

The height of the tallest building in your neighbourhood. What did you use as a reference to estimate the height?

The height of the tallest tree in your neighbourhood. What did you use as a reference?

The depth of a well or swimming pool in your neighbourhood. How did you find out?