– You can easily learn the metric system as it requires a basic unit of measurement (grams for weight, litres for volume, meters for distance) and for smaller and larger quantities, it adds prefixes.
– You can find many metric converters online.
– For easier conversions between the US and metric system, you should use approximations.
– You must remember that ‘Deca’ is 10 times, ‘hecto’ is 100 times and ‘kilo’ is 1000 times in the basic unit of liquid measure (litre).
– ‘Milli-‘ is one-thousandth, ‘centi-‘ is one-hundredth and ‘deci-‘ is one-tenth of the basic unit of liquid measure (litres).
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