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INSTANT METRIC
eBook
PAGE 2
TABLE of CONTENTS
PAGE 3
Evolution of
Archaic Measurement
PAGE 4 - Inch-Pound
PAGE 6 - "SI" Relates
PAGE 8
The Metric System
PAGE 10 - Prefixes
PAGE 11 - Symbols
PAGE 12
Everyday Base Units
PAGE 13 - meter
PAGE 15 - centimeter
PAGE 17 - millimeter 
PAGE 19 - kilometer
PAGE 21 - liter
PAGE 22 - milliliter
PAGE 24 - kilogram
PAGE 26 - gram
PAGE 28 - milligram
PAGE 29 - tonne
PAGE 31 
Temperature 
PAGE 32
7 Base Units
PAGE 34
HOW THE METRIC SYSTEM WORKS
PAGE 35 - Summary
OTHER USEFUL LINKS
FREE METRIC POSTERS
METRIC EXAMS!
INSTANT METRIC CONVERSION TABLES
United Metric States
 
 

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Like a dollar has 100 cents a meter in length
also has 100 cm (100 centimeters)

Centimeters are precise for measuring sewing patterns,
your height, your waist and for altering clothes.

 

Smaller Measurement from a centimeter

1 millimeter
(1 mm)

Remember, milli is the prefix meaning
1 one thousandth (0.001).
So 1 one thousandth of the
base unit meter, being 1 millimeter
is simply written 1 mm

 Larger Measurement from a centimeter

1 meter
(1 m)

Remember meter is the Base Unit
for Length and all other Units
are derived from it.
There are exactly 100 cm (centimeters)
in  1 m (meter)
and there are exactly 1000 mm
(millimeters in 1 m (meter)

Larger Measurement from a meter

1 kilometer
(1 km)

Remember, kilo is the prefix meaning
1000 times as much.
So, one thousand meters (1000 m) being
the length of 1 kilometer
is simply written 1 km and
pronounced
"KILL-oh-meet-ur" NOT "kill-AH-mit-ur".

 

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