Metric System

The metric unit of mass is kilogram. It is the mass of a piece of platinum alloy that keep in a museum in Paris. One kg (kilogram) is equal to 1000 g (gram). One kg (mass) weighs 2.205 pounds on the surface of the Earth.

No, the brake lines on a 1997 Wrangler are typically not metric. They are usually measured in inches.

Yes, 0 degrees is present on the Celsius scale.

No but a ton is, and it is very close to a tonne.

In the metric system basic units are multiplied or divided by 10 to get larger and smaller units

One US fluid ounce equates to ~29.6 milliliters.

Personally I think the metric system is better because it is easier in my opinion. When you think about it though, pretty much every teacher in the US has taught their students through the metric system and to change it would be complicated and the parents would even be confused too.

Lets know the conversion relation between meters and cm .To convert meters to cm or vice versa in metric system .We multiply meters value by 100 and get the value in cm .That is, 1 m=100 cm .So,400 m =40000 cm.

You would want to use meters, which is the base for measuring distance. A Meter is roughly 3 feet long. Three other metric distance measurements to be aware of are kilometers, which are 1000 meters, centimeters, which are 1/100 of a meter, and millimeters, which are 1/1000 of a meter.

348 meters is 34,800 centimeters.

SI unit for area is meter square. Other unit is yard.

The metric system's units (i.e: meters, centimeters, millimeters).

The prefix hecto is for 100; the prefix deca is for 10.

Yes, the second is the unit of time. It is one of the SI base units.

In the metric system, the Gram, as in kilogram is the standardfor mass measurement

I was taught the imperial system whilst a schoolboy in the UK, many years ago. So I prefer imperial rather than metric. But, as metric is becoming the norm, I have become familiar with both systems.

There is no such thing as smallest unit in the metric system. For example, the official prefix for the smallest unit is "yocto-", which is one septillionth (10^-24). But measurements can go on to 10^-11 yoctometres which is the Planck length, the smallest measurable distance.

The next smallest prefix from milli- is micro-. Milli- denotes thousandths, micro- denotes millionths.

The metric system is used in all countries. It is the main system of measurement in every country except Myanmar(Burma), Liberia, and the U.S.A.

Because neither one is economically viable.

First, the cost of converting thousands of processes built over 200 years is greater than any gains made in using the metric system.

As to universal health care, we have a free market that sets the rates based on customer/patient need. That free market just took a serious hit today with ObamaCare. We previously believed that each person was responsible for themselves and their family. Now we have been told it will be the government.

Both have, of course, proved economically viable and hugely successful in the rest of the world. Americans stand alone in rejecting the metric system and not caring for their neighbours.

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The metric system uses base ten in all its units. That is everything comes in tens, because this is the way we count normally, the calculations are much easier.

1 yard = 36 inches so 19.5 yards = 19.5*36 = 702 inches. Simple!