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Essentially the reason is that you deal with things of a similar nature. As an example if I have a barrel of bananas and the total count is 25, some of them ripe and some of them no ripe, how would you answer the following questions? 1) How many bananas are there in the barrel? You would say 252) How many raw bananas are there in the barrel? You will count and get the answer3) How many ripe bananas are there in the barrel? you will count and get the answer4) Give me 25 ripe bananas from the barrel. You cannot. Either you have to wait a while before the raw bananas ripen or you have to remove all the unripe bananas and replace them with ripe bananas. The point is there are numerous instances where you have to (using an old cliche) compare "apples to apples". Thus you cannot deal with yards, and feet in linear measure. You will have to convert them to either yards or feet. You cannot deal with meter and feet or kilograms and pounds or Fahrenheit and Celsius unless you convert each pair to a common unit. Otherwise you answers will be wrong.

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It is the connecting point between all other types of measurements. You can not go from molecules to grams without first going through moles. Or gas at STP to molecules without finding the moles.

you use the mole for 6.02x10 to the 23rd power for the same reason you use a dozen for the number 12.

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A consistent set of units must be used for many formulae. For example, in the formula distance = speed x time, if the speed is in m/s and the time in seconds, the distance will be in meters. If one of the measurements is in some other units (for example km/hour), it may be necessary to convert before using the formula (in order to have consistent units), or to convert the final result (to have it in a desired unit).

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Because the mole was adopted in SI (International System of Units) as the unit of amount of substance in chemistry.

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