Lesson 2

Metric-American Conversions

Introduction

Making conversions between the metric and American units is very similar to making metric conversions or any other type of conversion. For example you might be asked how many kilometers are equal to 15 miles or how many feet are there in 100 meters. These problems are solved in the same way as other conversion problems. One difference from metric conversions is that you will not be required you to memorize the conversion factors. We will give you a relationship between metric and current American units when you need to solve a problem, or have you look it up. A number of these relationships are listed here (and in example 17 in your workbook).