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If a person tells you she is 6 feet tall, is she basing that measurement on customary units or metric units?
Feet are a measurement in the Imperial system. If she was using Metric it would be in meters, not feet.
What are the similarities of the metric and customary measurements?
Oh, dude, metric and customary measurements are like distant cousins who finally meet at a family reunion and realize they're not so different after all. They both help us measure stuff, like how tall Shaq is or how much ice cream we can eat before feeling guilty. So yeah, they're kind of like two sides of the same coin, just with different accents.
What is the importance of units on a graph?
it's to help you with your counting
Is metric more accurate than standard?
First of all, the metric unit IS the standard unit. It is the international standard, and only a few countries don't use it yet. It is not any more accurate - the inch, for example, is defined on the basis of the meter, so it is just as accurate. However, the metric system can help avoid confusions - for example, different countries used to have, and in part still have, different definitions for the pound. The main advantage of the metric system lies in its standardization - people all over the world using the SAME measurements.
What sentence can you use to help you remember the order of the units from smallest to largest?
Here are ____meters, smallest to largest: yoctometer, zeptometer, attometer, femtometer, picometer, nanometer, micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, decameter, hectometer, kilometer, megameter, gigameter, terameter, petameter, exameter, zettameter, yottameter. Taking the prefeix from each of these words can be used with any other unit of measurement in the metric system. Here's the sentence: Yoshi zipped across fiery plains near Maine, mostly counting dames Mario ditched (mostly deserted him), killing monsters, Gigabowser, terrifying pirranhas... exciting zany Yoshi.
