MATH 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: United States Customary Units, Dimensional Analysis
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The us customary system and the metric system are the two collections of units we use in the. Us today: the metric system uses prefixes to name units in a uniform way, a fundamental relationship in the metric system is that 1 milliliter of water weighs 1 gram and had a volume of 1 cubic centimeter. A length describes the size of something (or part of something) that is 1-dimensional. An area describes the size of something (or part of something) that is 2-dimensional. A volume describes the size of something (or part of something) that is 3-dimensinal. 11. 4 converting from one unit of measurement to another. We can use multiplication and division to convert from one unit to another by considering how the units are related and by considering the meanings of multiplication and division.
