Don't worry about it. There's no such thing as "metric pounds".
Metric unit is easy. Costomary unit is an advanced unit
Divide by 5 to convert to metric teaspoons
1 metric ton = 2204.623 pounds
Approx 0.88 pounds.
Easy: Stones x 14 = pounds
2.4 million pounds.
times it by 1000
Pounds x 0.0004536 = metric tons
Why should they? The one they have works fine.
5.5 metric tons is 12,130 pounds.
11.57 metric tons is 25,510 pounds.
One metric ton is about 2,204.6 pounds.