Objects can be measured in different units, depending on their size. It is important to know the conversions between metric units. When you are converting one type of unit to another you need to ...

or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

Hillger says that even countries that have fully adopted the metric system also measure certain things in U.S. customary units or their own local system of measurement. “Even in your best metric ...