What is the purpose of converting units of measurement?

Answer 1

To be able to use the most appropriate measure possible such as, if it's in ft per second

and you need to know mph.

The purpose is to produce numbers that are easier to write down, remember,

understand, and discuss with other people.

Here are a few examples of quantities that are precisely and accurately stated,

but you would definitely want to convert them to other units of measurement

before doing anything with them:

-- I am paid to work for 144,000 seconds each week.

-- Drive 152,064 inches past the church, then turn left.

-- Please take my car up to the corner and put 1,536 ounces of gas in it.

-- Everybody was checked by the nurse at school today, and my weight is

down to 38,557 grams. Isn't that great news ! ?

-- Our neighbor is selling off a piece of his farmland. He'll sell us that parcel

by the creek. It's a full 40,468,561 square centimeters. He wants $700 for it.

What do you think of the price ?

-- My car can go zero to 88 feet per second in 0.0000124 fortnight.

Isn't that great !