2007-02-20 10:35:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
1. Everyone except americans are using it
2. Easier to convert 10 base.
3. cool names like jiga watts
2007-02-20 10:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by Todd C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's based on 10s, 100s, 1000s, etc. So you don't have to remember that there are 5280 feet in a mile and 12 inches in a foot.
There is only one name for each property. kilogram for mass, Newton for force, meter for length. American system has numerous names for everything, such as pounds, ounces, tons or inches, miles, feet.
All metric units can be calibrated to a perfect master specimen in France.
2007-02-20 18:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by PH 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's based on the 10 system, it's used in more places, and easier to computate?
2007-02-20 18:38:42 · answer #3 · answered by greenfrogs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
-its easy to convert, you just move the decimal around
-the metric staircase thingy
idk...but its a lot better than customary
2007-02-20 18:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Brooke 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One is regularity. It's all even multiples or fractions of a common unit (meters or liters).
2007-02-20 18:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) Easy to use as it goes up in hundreds and thousands
2) Easy to remeber terminology "Kilo - gram, Kilo - metre" etc
3) Most countries now adopt this
2007-02-20 18:39:51 · answer #6 · answered by Phantom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋