Metric Units Worksheet
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Changing Metric Units
MAIN IDEA
FOOD
The table shows the
Baked Beans Consumed
Change units within the
metric system.
estimated consumption of baked
per Person
beans per person for several
Country
g
kg
countries.
Ireland
5,600
5.6
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United Kingdom
4,800
4.8
How many grams of baked
1.
United States
2,000
2
beans are consumed per person
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in the United States?
Canada
1,200
1.2
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How many kilograms of baked
2.
• Self-Check Quiz
beans are consumed per person
in the United States?
Describe the relationship between the quantities you found in
3.
Exercises 1 and 2.
Compare the number of grams and kilograms of baked beans
4.
consumed by the other countries in the table. Make a conjecture
about how to convert from grams to kilograms.
To change from one unit to another in the metric system, you multiply
or divide by powers of 10. The chart below shows the relationship
between the units in the metric system and the powers of 10.
1,000 100
10
1
0.1
0.01 0.001
Each place value is 10 times
the place value to its right.
In Lesson 8-1, you learned the following methods for changing
customary units of measure.
• To change from a larger unit to a smaller unit, multiply.
• To change from a smaller unit to a larger unit, divide.
You can use the same methods for changing metric units of measure.
×
×
×
1,000
100
10
larger
smaller
km
m
cm
mm
unit
unit
÷
÷
÷
1,000
100
10
445
Lesson 8-6 Changing Metric Units
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