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Yes, when multiplying things the measurements must all be in the same units of measure or the answer is meaningless.

If you want an example of what can happen if this rule is not followed, then one of the US Mars missions crashed into Mars rather then going round it into orbit because half the sums in the computer were in meters and half were in miles and nobody had noticed!.

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