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