The majority of the world uses the metric system, which incorporates meters as a base measurement of length. The United States is peculiar in retaining the old English measuring system of feet, pounds, quarts, etc.
it is used in thermometers and in heat meters
Millimeters and meters.
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The metric system
They are the U.S. measurements. Instead of the Metric system that uses meters, the Customary system uses feet and inches.
The metric system
America uses feet; the rest of the world uses meters.
It depends on which country you are in. The USA uses feet.
An english ruler uses inches and feet, and a metric ruler uses centimeters, millimeters, decimeters and meters.
To convert yards to dekameters, first convert yards to meters (1 yard is approximately 0.9144 meters). Therefore, 250 yards is about 228.6 meters. Since 1 dekameter equals 10 meters, Emma uses approximately 22.86 dekameters of crepe paper.
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Prefix 'kilo' is used to denote multiples of meter and uses factor 1000. Therefore to convert meters to kilometers, value in meters has to be divided by factor used with prefix 'kilo': 1600 meters = [meters] / 1000 = 1600 / 1000 = 1.6 kilometers