Mini-quiz on the Metric System

1. Which could be used as a standard to measure the distance from the pitching mound to home plate?

Cubits (distance from your elbow to the end of your middle finger

Steps (walk it off)

A 10 inch piece of pipe

2. Why is the metric system a good system?

It is used by all countries

It is the only system that uses standards

It is based on the number 10

3. One kilofrog would be equal to how many millifrogs ?

1,000,000

1,000

.001

4. What does SI stand for?

Scientific Instruments

System International

Standards Importance

5. One computer byte is how many kilobytes?

.001

1000

1,000,000