To comply with the internationally accepted SI units.
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The US does not use the metric system.
The US teaches the metric system to students to help them understand and communicate with the rest of the world, where the metric system is widely used. Additionally, many scientific fields in the US use the metric system, so it's important for students to be familiar with it for academic and professional purposes.
metric system is for commies
There isn't a separate US metric system, the metric system is international and the same everywhere. So one kilometre in the U.S.A. is one kilometre.
The Metric System.
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We could. but we'd need the president to "okay" it. we just like to be different.
The US has not converted to the Metric System yet. We are still using the English Customary.
Only the US uses the metric system. Hope it helped :D
Every civilised country in the world uses the metric system.