Converting from smaller metric units to larger

Converting from smaller metric units to larger

Learn converting from smaller metric units to larger

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Let's convert 4 centigrams into kilograms. We'll do it as a two step process, converting to and from the base unit of grams.

First let's convert to grams. Centi means 1 one hundredth

So 4 centigrams is 4 hundredths of a gram, or zero point zero four grams.

Kilo means thousand, so a gram is 1 one thousandth of a kilogram.

So we can divide another time by one thousand, and we have zero point zero zero zero zero four kilograms