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There are several reasons.

One is that conversion up and down orders of magnitude are simple. All you need to do is move the decimal point.

There are usually sensible links from units for measuring one characteristic to that measuring another (though not always). A cubic centimetre (measure of volume) of pure water used to have a mass of 1 gram (measure of mass), though the definition has been changed. Calories, Kelven and Grams are directly linked, and so on.

Another is that almost all countries - developed, and developing use this system. Only some die hards remain. And even with those countries, the scientific communities usually use the metric system.

The measures are better standardised. You do not have the US gallon and the Imperial gallon, several measures of foot, tonne, etc.

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