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Understanding Metric System Conversions: From Basic Units to Prefixes

The metric system is a decimal-based system utilized across various scientific and everyday contexts. It comprises fundamental units like meter, gram, and liter, which can be modified using prefixes such as kilo-, centi-, and milli-. For converting between these units, it's essential to identify your starting unit, your target unit, the direction of the conversion, and how many decimal places to move. This guide provides simple steps for converting units and examples including grams to milligrams and kilometers to meters.

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Understanding Metric System Conversions: From Basic Units to Prefixes

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  1. The metric system has basic units whose size is changed by prefixes:meter, kilometer, centimetergram, kilogram, centigram

  2. We will convert from one prefix to another by moving the decimal

  3. kilohectodekaBasic Unitdecicentimillik h da BU d c m

  4. Answer these questions to convert.1. Where are you starting? (what unit do you know the value for)2. Where are you going? (what unit don’t you know the value for)3. Which direction is that?4. How many places must you move?5. Add placeholder zeroes to locate the decimal

  5. Convert these:55 g = mg55 g = kg1.25 cm = mm1.25 cm = m2.278 km = m2.278 m = km1 km = mm

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