How is the metric system easier to use than the English system?

Question

I need to know this question for Biology, how is the metric system easier than the English system in the terms of measuring a door way, or coming up with the volume of a fish tank or weighing a penny! I need 2 ways they are easier, and they have to be based on lab experiment, one of which we weighed a penny, one we got the volume of a fish tank, one we measured the door way.

Answer 1

The metric system is the English system, in the  U.S. we use inches, feet gallons and so on.

Answer 2

Its a 10 base system. No nucking about with 5/12th's mumbo jumbo it all decimals. Plus its easier to get your head around. milli meter 1 centimater 10 meter 100 kilometer 1000 etc.

Answer 3

In metric you have the simplicity of conversions, where you just move the decimal place.

With the english system you have to memorize different values, like 1 mile is 5280 feet and one foot is 12 inches, which is a bit more troublesom compared to 1 meter is 100cm and 1km is 100m.

Also, there's the fact that most of the world uses metric.

Answer 4

it is easier if you know it by heart because it runs in multiples of ten the same way we count where each place is a multiple of ten

Answer 5

1 milliliter of water (at 4 degrees Celsius) exactly equals 1 gram of mass, and exactly equals one cubic centimeter of volume.

So for the fish tank, you measure it in cubic cm, and that's your volume of water, without needing the water.

For the penny, you can measure the water displaced by putting it in a graduated container of water, then that tells you the volume.  You can then multiply the volume by the specific weights of the copper and zinc that make up the penny alloy, and that should tell you the weight.

I don't quite see how it makes measuring the doorway easier.  Last I checked, Home Depot still carries 2-by-4's. :)

Answer 6

its not

Answer 7

wow hard.

ok, first reason... litres and kilograms are exactly the same e.g:

1litre is 1 kg

2kg of water is 2 litres

(only works with water though)

i cant think of anything else

~ hope that helps =) ~

Answer 8

We didn't do your experiments, but essentially the metric system is base 10 and all different measurements work the same -- in increments, or multiples, of 10.