This math skill teaches how to convert smaller metric units to larger ones by using grams as a base. It involves understanding the meanings of metric prefixes and performing conversions and calculations based on these prefixes.
Converting from smaller metric units to larger
Test your understanding of converting from smaller metric units to larger by practicing it! Work through the below exercises to use it in practice.
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Let's convert 4 centigrams into kilograms. We'll do it as a two step process, converting to and from the base unit of grams.
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First let's convert to grams. Centi means 1 one hundredth
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So 4 centigrams is 4 hundredths of a gram, or zero point zero four grams.
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Kilo means thousand, so a gram is 1 one thousandth of a kilogram.
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So we can divide another time by one thousand, and we have zero point zero zero zero zero four kilograms