How many American miles are in the metric system's 1 kilogram?
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I assume you mean kilometer?\n\n1 kilogram  == 2.2046 pounds\n\n1 kilometer == 3280.84 ft \n1 kilometer == 2/3 of a metric mile\n1 kimometer == .625 (5280 feet statute mile)\n\n\nSome online conversion sites.
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1024\n\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=How+many+kilobytes+are+in+a+megabyte&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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1. D. 4000 g. because there are 1000 grams in a kilogram.\n\n2. B. 15 ft. 7 in. because you just have to add the feet and then add the inches (14 ft. 19 inches) and then change twelve of the inches into one foot. \n\n3. C. 10 hr. 20 min. because it is 8 hr. 20 min. from 3:40 AM to noon, and it's 2 more hours to 2:00 PM. \n\n4. A. 8,800 yd. because there are 1,760 yards in one mile, and then you just multiply by 5. \n\nI hope this helps. Don't just copy the answers, but make sure you UNDERSTAND the material. :)
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I'm really worried about all you folks who say you learned your incorrect answers in history class.  What are they teaching you?\nThe awkward system of measurement that Americans use was also used by the English until just a couple of decades ago.  It has nothing to do with Americans wanting to be different from the English, or the American Revolution, or anything like that.\nThe metric system was invented by French scientists in the Age of Enlightenment back in the 18th Century when the French (quite literally) worshipped Reason.  (There were even temples to Reason during the French Revolution.)\n During this revolution, in the 1790's, the French instituted the very rational, scientific metric system, in which everything is based on the decimal system.  The basic unit of measurement, the metre, was established by determining the distance between the equator and the North Pole and then dividing that by powers of ten until you got something small enough to be a useful unit of measurement in everyday life.  The gram was established by weighing the amount of water in a cubic centimeter (at least I think it was a centimeter).  In the centigrade system of temperature, 0 is the temperature at which water freezes and 100 is the temperature at which it boils.  Everything is beautifully rational, and therefore good for science, where it is universally used.\n\nThe French Revolution failed but its measuring system lived on, because it was so useful.  The English, who hated the French, refused to adopt their measuring system until they were forced to by the emergence of the Common Market.  Others on this list have accurately given the history of the failure of Americans to convert to the metric system.  But that's how it all began.
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About 3.1 miles, but you can look this up easily in Google. Just type "5 km in miles".  You can do all sorts of conversions this way.
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America's conversion to metric is the law:http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Metric/pub814.cfm#act\n\nIt's just voluntary.\n\nHowever, all the units you listed are metric.  The prefixes you're confused about are metric prefixes.
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some background:\n1866\n    The use of the metric system made legal (but not mandatory) in the United States by the (Kasson) Metric Act of 1866 (Public Law 39-183). This law also made it unlawful to refuse to trade or deal in metric quantities.\n1893\n    ..... metric prototypes were declared "fundamental standards of length and mass" in the Mendenhall Order. Since that date, the yard, pound, etc. have been officially defined in terms of the metric system.\n\nThis timeline, and more, can be found at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/dates.htm\n\nOur common units of miles, pounds and degrees fahrenheit are defined metricly. But still it's not how we in the U.S. think.\n\nWikipedia says:\n"Only France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan have seen significant popular opposition to metrication, the main objections being based on tradition, aesthetics, economical impact and distaste for measures viewed as foreign."\n\nIt's the imp of the perverse.
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There is a detailed (perhaps too detailed) explanation at the following location:\nhttp://www.france-property-and-information.com/metric-system-and-history.htm\n\nYou will also find at this location several pages which will discuss other aspects of your question.\n\nIn terms of capacity, the metric system and the USA/Imperial systems simply use different units. The situation is a bit more complex for weight/mass. \n\nWeight is how much something ways, whereas mass is the amount of matter. We say that a kilogram (mass) is equal to 2.2 pounds (weight). However, this is true (roughly) only on Earth. For example, something that is 100kg. (220 pounds) on Earth would still be 100 kg. on the moon but only about 37 pounds on the moon. That is because mass is constant whereas weight depends on gravity. For most of this, the distinction is unimportant as we all live and work on the earth. However, scientific purposes (e.g. space travel) weight and mass are very different.
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69.imnotdoingyourhomework kilometers
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I agree we should switch and the government has tried to get us to use it before but many Americans just don't want to learn it.  In the UK they are  complaining about it and an Australian told me alot of the older generation there still refer to everything in miles.  The best thing to do is prepare the next generation for it and maybe put signs in both the metric and miles and then eventually take away the miles part.
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Yes. It's like sweet, sweet, mathematical unification of the world! Many parts of the world has already been using the Metric System, except for various countries like the US. The rules of the Metrics, is simplier than the Customs. (cm)Each unit of the measurement is in 10s, as inch, make it hard to make specific measures because each mark on the ruler is 0.0625! Adopting the Metric System!
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That's like asking why the US uses inches, feet, etc., instead of the metric system (which the rest of the world uses).  Basically, it's just because we're the US.  No reason.  But it's too much of a hassle to change, apparently, on both counts.
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The safest way to do any unit conversion is to just multiply your initial value by 1 unil the units are what you want. I know this sounds strange. I will explain by doing a more complex conversion.  This technique works for all conversions.\n\nI don't know the direct conversion from miles to km or from cm/sec to mph, but I do know this:\n\n1 inch = 2.54 cm\n100 cm = 1 m\n1000 m = 1 km\n12 inch = 1 foot\n5280 foot = 1 mile\n60 sec = 1 minute\n60 minute = 1 hour\n\nI can take any of the above equations and make the number one by dividing one side by the other ( 1 = (2.54 cm)/(1 inch)).\n\nI will convert 1 mile to km by taking 1 mile and multiplying it by 1 until all the units but km cancel:\n\n1 mile = 1 mile x (5280 ft/1 mile) x (12 inch/1 foot) x (2.54 cm/1 inch) x (1 m/100 cm) x (1 km/1000 m) = 1.609344 km\n\nGo through the above carefully to make sure its clear. Once you get comfortable with the concept of mulitplying by 1 and cancelling out the units properly, you can do any unit conversion.\n\nTake 30 cm/sec to mi/hr:\n\n(30 cm/sec) * (1 in/2.54 cm) * (1 foot/ 12 inch) * (60 sec/min) = 59.055 ft/min\n\nTake it from there.
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What's the problem?  You have the conversion factors.  8km = 8/1.6 miles,  1 sec = 1/3600 hr.  First you have 8/1.6 mi/sec = 8/1.6 mi/sec*3600 sec/hr = [   ]mi/hr (you figure it)
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Currently, the scientific community uses the MKS system for most engineering, and beginning physics:\n\n      M = Meters (Length)\n      K = Kilograms (Mass)\n      S = Seconds (Time)\n\n...the answer is KILOGRAMS.
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Well. One kilometre ( or kilometer if you're from the US) is 5/8 of a mile therefore one mile is 8/5 kilometres. Therefore  141500000 times 8 is 1132000000 and divided by 5 is 226,400,000 kilometres. To convert 687 days to years, divide by 365 ( assuming not a leap year!) so 687/365 is 1.882191 years.
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I hate the metric system...