Units from the metric system can be used to describe the mass ... 1.5m × 100 = 150cm You could also convert the centimetre measurement to metres: 170cm ÷ 100 = 1.7m Patrick jumped 1.5m.

or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

These standard units can be divided into two separate groups: imperial and metric. Depending on where ... traditionally have used the imperial system of measurement. Despite being seen as quite ...

Hillger says that even countries that have fully adopted the metric system also measure certain things in U.S. customary units or their own local system of measurement. “Even in your best metric ...

In the United States, metric is technically the preferred ... and people often use pounds and ounces for body weight. The imperial system, with units like inches, feet, pounds, and gallons ...

system but which metric advocates derisively refer to as FFU (Fred Flintstone Units). So I could have probably said to my editor, “That’s typical FFU.” But of course I didn’t. Such lack of ...

This metric system had as its fundamental unit of length the meter, defined to be a small fraction of the length of a meridian of the earth. Other units of length were decimal multiples or fractions ...