Metric conversions: Weights, Measurements, American Currency & Time

Exercise 1: Practice saying the list aloud.

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One pound (lb.) = (equals) 16(sixteen) ounces (ounsez) (oz.)

One Metric Ton (tuhn) (mt) = 1,000 kilograms (kgs) = 2,205 Pounds (lbs.) = 1.1 American Tons (tuhn) (t)

One ounce (ounse) (oz.) = 28.35 grams (g)

One inch (in) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)

One foot (ft.) = 12 inches (in) = .3 meter (m), (three tenths of a meter) or decimal (des-uh-muhl) point three.

One yard (yahrd) (yd.) = 3 feet (ft.)

One mile (mahyl) (mi) = 5,280 feet = 1.6 kilometers (ki-lom-i-ters) (kms.) = 1,760 yards

One liter (lee-ter) (l) = 1,000 milliliters (ml) = .27 gallons (gal-uhn) (gal)

One tablespoon (tbsp) = ½ fluid ounce.

One teaspoon (tsp) = 1/6 fluid ounce. (One-sixth)

One millimeter = 1/1000 meter = one thousandth of a meter               

One centimeter = .394 inch

One meter = 40 inches = 3.38 feet

One kilometer = 1000 meters

One acre (ey-ker) = 4,840 square yards = 4,047 square meters

One square mile = 640 square acres

One quart = 2 pints (pahynt) (pt) = 4 cups(c)

One gallon = 4 quarts = 3.78 liters

One cent (Abraham Lincoln (ling-kuhn) on penny) = 1/100 dollar

One nickel (Thomas Jefferson on nickel) = 1/20th dollar

One dime (Franklin D. Roosevelt on dime) = 1/10th dollar

One quarter (George Washington on quarter) = ¼ dollar

One half dollar (John F. Kennedy on half dollar) = 1/2 dollar

One dollar (George Washington on $1 bill) = 100 cents

Two-dollar bill (Thomas Jefferson on $2-dollar bill) =$2.00

Five-dollar bill (Abraham Lincoln (ling-kuhn) on five-dollar bill) = $5.00

Twenty-dollar bill (Andrew Jackson on $20 bill) = $20.00

Fifty-dollar bill (Ulysses S. Grant on $50 dollar bill) =$50.00

One-hundred-dollar bill (Benjamin Franklin on $100-dollar bill) =$100.00 (Benjamin’s)

One euro = 1.25 dollars (varies with market)

One second = 1/60 minute

One minute = 60 seconds

One hour = 60 minutes = 1/24th of a day

One day = 24 hours = 1/7th of a week

One week = 7 days

One year = 52 weeks

One decade = 10 years

One score = 20 years

One century = 100 years

One millennium (mi-len-ee-uhm) = 1000 years

One light year (1LY) = (equals) five trillion eight hundred seventy-eight billion four hundred ninety-nine million eight hundred and ten thousand miles

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