Use units of millimeters, meters, or kilometers.
You can use a measuring tape or a laser measuring device to measure the distance to the door in metric units, such as meters or centimeters. Simply extend the measuring tool from your starting point to the door to determine the distance.
You would use kilograms (kg) to measure someone's mass in metric units.
You use exactly the same instruments to measure speed in the metric system as you use in any other system. For example, a speedometer, or a distance measuring device and a stopwatch. The difference is that these devices are calibrated in metric units, instead of old-fashioned units.
Kilometers
Use units of millimeters, meters, or kilometers.
Meters
You can use a measuring tape or a laser measuring device to measure the distance to the door in metric units, such as meters or centimeters. Simply extend the measuring tool from your starting point to the door to determine the distance.
base on what you measure to use the metric units.
You would use kilograms (kg) to measure someone's mass in metric units.
inches or centimeters, I would use inches.
You use exactly the same instruments to measure speed in the metric system as you use in any other system. For example, a speedometer, or a distance measuring device and a stopwatch. The difference is that these devices are calibrated in metric units, instead of old-fashioned units.
dm is a metric units of measure the world noway days use! dm = decimeters
Kilometers
This information is already posted at Wikipedia as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Australia
What metric unit would you use to measure a computer keyboard
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