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.
Pounds x 0.0004536 = metric tons
times it by 1000
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.