Maths For Real Life, Period 1, Class 2 [1/14]

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"If your universe does not have money, see me after class," Jean-Paul began this week. "If your universe does not use either the metric or Imperial standards of measurement--you would be surprised how many do--also see me after class. For this is what we are going to discuss today: converting from metric to Imperial and vice versa. America is one of three countries who have not adopted the metric system at the present time, which means that for those of you from here, you will have to convert everything you see whenever you go to another country, and for those of you from elsewhere, well, you are stuck in America at the present time." Jean-Paul then proceeded to give a rather dry lecture on the differences between the two systems when it came to measuring weight and mass, length, area, and volume, and how to calculate conversion. Then he said, "Please study these conversions, as there may be a quiz. Then I would like to know how you would apply what you have just learned to any other system of measurement you encounter. Say you're trapped on a world where they don't measure in inches or centimeters; they measure in the length of a particular flower petal. Would you be able to cope? How?"