9.1 The Metric System
Base units for length, mass, and capacity, the six common prefixes ordered by size, and shifting the decimal point to move between them.
9 exercises
9.1 Exercise 1
Which base unit would be used to express the following?
- amount of water in a swimming pool
- length of an electrical wire
- weight of one serving of peanuts
9.1 Exercise 3
Order the measures from smallest unit to largest unit.
centimeter, millimeter, decimeter
9.1 Exercise 5
What is a reasonable value for the length of a person’s thumb: 5 meters, 5 centimeters, or 5 millimeters?
9.1 Exercise 7
The firehouse is 13.45 km from the library. How many meters is it from the firehouse to the library?
9.1 Exercise 9
How many liters is 3,565 milliliters?
9.1 Exercise 11
Caroline and Aiyana are working on a chemistry experiment together and must perform calculations using measurements taken during the experiment. Due to miscommunication, Caroline took measurements in centigrams and Aiyana used milligrams. Convert Caroline’s measurement of 125 centigrams to milligrams.
9.1 Exercise 13
A bottle contains 500 mL of juice. If the juice is packaged in 24-bottle cases, how many liters of juice does the case contain?
9.1 Exercise 15
The nutrition label on a jar of spaghetti sauce indicates that one serving contains 410 mg of sodium. You have poured two servings over your favorite pasta before recalling your doctor’s advice about keeping your sodium consumption below 1 g per meal. Have you followed your doctor’s recommendation?
9.1 Exercise 17
A student carefully measured 0.52 cg of copper for a science experiment, but their lab partner said they need 6 mg of copper total. How many more centigrams of copper does the student need to add?
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