Metric to English
The United States is one of three nations that do not use the metric system. We use mostly the English system of measurement. Because so much of the world uses the metric system, there is a big need to know how to convert metric to English. When you weigh in at the doctor’s office, the scale shows your weight in kilograms.
Scale
Scale refers to the ratio of the size of an object or quantity in a drawing or model to the actual size of the object or quantity in the real world. This is often expressed as a scale factor or a scale ratio. Scales are commonly used in various fields of mathematics, such as geometry, mapping, and engineering, to represent objects and quantities at different magnitudes or levels of detail.
