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Because it is a SYSTEM and was designed for ease of use. The accumulation of English-Imperial-American-Customary units is not a system. Example. A cubic inch of water weighs what? Versus- a cubic cm or water is a ml and weighs one gram. The best way to get to know the metric system is to NEVER covert units from inches, etc. Just use metric--it's simple! Conversion are hard and a huge bother. Science has used the metric system for a couple centuries. Many important units are defined in metric terms and nothing else.

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