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Metric Unit Conversions

The document provides a mnemonic to remember metric unit conversions using the phrase 'King Henry died by drinking chocolate milk,' where each word represents a metric prefix. It explains how to convert between different metric units by counting the number of places to move the decimal point based on the prefixes. Additionally, it includes a series of conversion exercises for practice.

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Metric Unit Conversions

The document provides a mnemonic to remember metric unit conversions using the phrase 'King Henry died by drinking chocolate milk,' where each word represents a metric prefix. It explains how to convert between different metric units by counting the number of places to move the decimal point based on the prefixes. Additionally, it includes a series of conversion exercises for practice.

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METRIC UNIT CONVERSIONS

FIRST!! A sad, sad story:


King Henry died by drinking chocolate milk!

If you can remember that sad, sad story and you can count to seven, then
YOU CAN DO METRIC CONVERSIONS!! Notice, the first letter in each
word in the sad, sad story represents one of the metric prefixes.

King Henry died by drinking chocolate milk


Kilo - Hecto – Deka – Base deci- centi- milli-
k- h- da- m, g, L, d- c- m-
thousand hundred ten (THE BASE tenth hundredth thousandth
UNIT)

1000 100 10 1 1/10 1/100 1/1000

NOW DRAW A HORIZONTAL LINE WITH SEVEN VERTICAL LINES,


ONE BELOW EACH LETTER.

k- h- da- base d- c- m-
________________________________________________________

Here is how to use this diagram:

When you have a length such a 6.35 km and you want to convert it to cm.
1. Locate the km units on the chart (the k-)
2. Count to the right or left to the cm units on the chart (the c-) - 5 to the
right
3. Move the decimal point of the length the same amount – 5 to the
right

6.35 km = 635000. cm
5 to the right

0.000435 dam
4.35 mm = _________

45000
45 dam = _________ cm

700
0.007 hm = _______ mm
Now do the following conversions:

1. 34.5
3.45 dam = ______________ m

2. 4.59
459.0 cm = _____________ m

3. 2.347
2,347.0 mm = _______________m

4. 188
1.88 m = _______________cm

5. 67.8
678 cm = _______________dm

6. 12300
1.23 dam = ______________ mm

7. 4900
4.90 km = ______________ m

8. 10.02
1002 cm = ______________ m

9. 25600
25.6 m = _______________ mm
520
10. 52 cm = ________________ mm

707000
11. 70.7 km = ________________dm

9.87
12. 987 dam = ________________ km
122200
13. 122.2 m = ________________ mm

10
14. 1000 cm = ________________ m

100000
15. 1000 m = ________________ cm

EXTRA CREDIT:
250000
16. 2.5 km = ___________________cm

5.2
17. 0.0052 kilograms = __________________ grams

1243
18. 1.243 kilonewtons = _________________ newtons

0.4524
19. 45.24 dekapascals = ________________ kilopascals

?
20. 932.0 calories = ________________ kilocalories

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