Multiply or divide by a power of 10.
The metric system is a basis for measurements. It has no shape.
The Metre
The world system of measurements units is based on the metric system (SI).
The metric system was created to standardize measurements. In the past, measurements were based on abstract things like the size of an arm or the width of a horse. When these became subunits for each other, it got complicated. So the metric system bases everything on divisions of 100. It helped scientific research because (hopefully) everyone, everywhere uses it and different countries don't have to convert everything.
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Decimals are a way to represent numbers whereas metric refers to a system of measurements. There can be no conversion from one to the other.
This is because the metric system and our number system are both based on powers of ten.
The metric system is a basis for measurements. It has no shape.
the metric system is divisable by units OS ten which makes it simple to convert measurements in meters into other metric units
They use the metric system.
The word "metric" refers to measurements and the metric system is a system for measuring physical and chemical attributes.
In the metric system, measurements are expressed in multiples of 10.
Is the metric system.
You use it to record measurements such as height or distance, speed or density, to convert from one set of units to another and to calculate the effect that one attribute (force) might have on another attribute (acceleration) of a third (mass).
They use the Metric system.
The English system and the metric system.
By using measuring tools with metric measurements on them.