Mastering Metric Unit Conversion Techniques

This video tutorial covers metric unit conversions, focusing on using prefixes like kilo, hecto, deca, and more. It introduces a mnemonic device, 'King Henry drinks unusually delicious chocolate milk,' to help remember the order of prefixes. The video provides step-by-step examples of converting between different metric units, such as meters to centimeters and millimeters to centimeters. It also explains how to handle conversions involving larger and smaller units, using decimal point movements and filling in zeros where necessary.

What mnemonic is used to remember the order of metric prefixes?

• King Henry eats unusual dark chocolate

• King Henry drinks unusually delicious chocolate milk

• King Henry enjoys delicious chocolate milk

• King Henry drinks unusual dark coffee

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What does the prefix 'kilo' stand for?

• 1,000

• 100

• 10

• 0.1

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Which prefix represents the base unit in the mnemonic?

• Kilo

• Milli

• Deca

• Unit

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How many spaces do you move the decimal point to convert 3 meters to centimeters?

• Two spaces to the right

• One space to the left

• Three spaces to the right

• Two spaces to the left

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What is 3 meters converted to centimeters?

• 300 cm

• 0.3 cm

• 30 cm

• 3,000 cm

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How many spaces do you move the decimal point to convert 9,280 millimeters to centimeters?

• One space to the left

• Two spaces to the right

• One space to the right

• Three spaces to the left

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What is 9,280 millimeters converted to centimeters?

• 928 cm

• 92.8 cm

• 9.28 cm

• 9280 cm

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How many spaces do you move the decimal point to convert 65,000 milliliters to liters?

• Three spaces to the left

• One space to the left

• Three spaces to the right

• Two spaces to the right

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What is 65,000 milliliters converted to liters?

• 0.65 liters

• 650 liters

• 65 liters

• 6.5 liters

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How many spaces do you move the decimal point to convert 86 milligrams to kilograms?

• Three spaces to the left

• Five spaces to the right

• Six spaces to the left

• Four spaces to the right

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