Use a metric ruler scaled in millimeters to measure each object.
See Example 2.- The length of a dollar bill
- The width of a dollar bill
- The length (top to bottom) of this page
- The length of the word antidisestablishmentarianism
as printed here.
Perform each conversion.See Example 3.- 380 centimeters to meters
- 590 centimeters to meters
- 120 centimeters to meters
- 640 centimeters to meters
Perform each conversion.See Example 4.- 8.7 meters to millimeters
- 1.3 meters to millimeters
- 2.89 meters to millimeters
- 4.06 meters to millimeters
Perform each conversion.See Example 5.- 4.5 centimeters to kilometers
- 6.2 centimeters to kilometers
- 0.3 centimeters to kilometers
- 0.4 centimeters to kilometers
Perform each conversion.See Example 6.- 1.93 kilograms to grams
- 8.99 kilograms to grams
- 4.531 kilograms to grams
- 6.077 kilograms to grams
Perform each conversion.See Example 7.- 6,000 milligrams to grams
- 9,000 milligrams to grams
- 3,500 milligrams to grams
- 7,500 milligrams to grams
Perform each conversion.See Example 8.- 3 liters to milliliters
- 4 liters to milliliters
- 26.3 liters to milliliters
- 35.2 liters to milliliters
Perform each conversion.- 0.31 decimeters to centimeters
- 73.2 meters to decimeters
- 500 milliliters to liters
- 500 centiliters to milliliters
- 2 kilograms to grams
- 4,000 grams to kilograms
- 0.074 centimeters to millimeters
- 0.125 meters to millimeters
- 1,000 kilograms to grams
- 2 kilograms to centigrams
- 658.23 liters to kiloliters
- 0.0068 hectoliters to kiloliters
- 4.72 cm to dm
- 0.593 cm to dam
- 10 mL cc
- 2,000 cc L
- 500 mg to g
- 500 mg to cg
- 5,689 g to kg
- 0.0579 km to mm
- 453.2 cm to m
- 675.3 cm to m
- 0.325 dL to L
- 0.0034 mL to L
- 675 dam cm
- 76.8 hm mm
- 0.00777 cm dam
- 400 liters to hL
- 134 m to hm
- 6.77 mm to cm
- 65.78 km to dam
- 5 g to cg
- SPEED SKATING American Eric Heiden won an
unprecedented five gold medals by capturing the
men’s 500-m, 1,000-m, 1,500-m, 5,000-m, and 10,000-m
races at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake
Placid, New York. Convert each race length to
kilometers.
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