Solve the following word problems. Julia cut a string 8.46 m long into 6 equal pieces. What is the length of each piece of string? m The mass of a jar of sweets is 1.4 kg. What is the total mass of 7 such jars of sweets? kg The watermelon bought by Peter is 3 times as heavy as the papaya bought by Paul. If the watermelon bought by Peter has a mass of 4.2 kg, what is the mass of the papaya? kg There is 0.625 kg of powdered milk in each tin. If a carton contains 12 tins, find the total mass of powdered milk in the carton. kg Marcus bought 8.6 kg of sugar. He poured the sugar equally into 5 bottles. There was 0.35 kg of sugar left over. What was the mass of sugar in 1 bottle? kg Look the example : Decimals are read as fractions and mixed numbers. .4 is four tenths .35 is thirty-five hundredths .703 is seven hundred three thousandths. 6.8 is six and eight tenths 21.46 is twenty one and forty-six hundredths ...