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Metric system
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The Metric System
In the late 1700 the french academia of science set out to make a simple and reliable measurement system
over the next 200 year The metric system was formed
the system is now the internacional system or unit (SI)
Because all SI are expressed in 10
kg, km, kl= 1000
hecta= 100
deca= 10
g, m, l= 1
deci= 10
centi= 100
mili= 1000
1000m 1km
1000k 1,000,000m
1,000cm 10m
1,000m 100,000
1,000mm
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5ml 0.005L
10ml 0.01L
10l 10,000mL
525L 525,000L
24cl 0.24L
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Scientific notation is an abreviation to write big numbers
25,300,000,000,000 miles the first thing to do is to find where the decimal point will be
Move left the exponent goes up, if you move it right the exponent goes down
3.749 X10exp9
3,749 X10= 37,49
7.921 X10exp8
79,21
The number need to gen back to 0