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Metric Units and Measurement<br />
Metric Vs. Imperial: Conversion Charts and Information<br />
Fact: The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that<br />
doesn't use the metric system as its predominant system of weights and<br />
measures. Today only the USA, Liberia and Myanmar still use the old English<br />
Imperial system. The rest of the world is metric.<br />
Given that Canada is a neighbor of the USA we still use quite a bit of the imperial<br />
system. For example do you weigh yourself in kilograms or pounds Do you<br />
measure land in acres or hectres Do you measure yourself in feet and inches or<br />
centimetres<br />
Imperial Unit<br />
Metric (SI)<br />
Unit<br />
Metric (SI)<br />
unit<br />
Imperial Unit<br />
Inch<br />
2.54<br />
centimetres<br />
Centimetre<br />
0.39 inches<br />
Foot<br />
30.48<br />
centimetres<br />
Metre<br />
3.28 feet<br />
Yard 0.91 metres Metre 1.09 yards<br />
Mile 1.61 kilometres Kilometre 0.62 miles<br />
NWT Literacy Council<br />
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<strong>Simply</strong> <strong>Math</strong> Workbook
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