3. What part of a liter is a deciliter? What part of a hectoliter is a liter? 4. How many liters in 4 Dl.? How many kiloliters in 2000 1.? 5. What part of a hectoliter is a dl.? What part of a myrialiter is a Kl.? 1. Express 9 Hl. 7 Dl. 4 1. 8 dl. as liters. Ans. 71812 cl. Ans. 50.637 Kl. Ans. .1234 Hl. Ans. 16070 cl. 7. In 16 Dl. 7 dl. how many centiliters? MEASURES OF WEIGHT. 206. The unit of weight is the Gram. It is the weight of a cubic centimeter of distilled water at its maximum density, 39.2° F., or 4° C.; and is equal to called a kilogram. A gram, therefore, is equal to the weight of the water contained in a small vessel having the capacity of a cubic centimeter. The kilogram is used for weighing groceries and common articles; the gram for weighing letters, gold, and medicines. For articles of great weight, as coal and hay, the metric ton is the standard. The kilogram, or kilo, weighs about 2 pounds, and the metric ton about 1 common tons. NOTE.-The U. S. nickel five-cent piece is 2 centimeters in diameter, and weighs 5 grams. The lawful weight of a letter for a single postage of 24, is 15 grams, or the weight of three nickels. 1. How many grams in a decagram? In a hectogram? In a kilogram? 2. How many decigrams in 40 centigrams? How many grams in 1000 milligrams? 3. What part of a decagram is a decigram? What part of a kilogram is a decagram? 4. How many metric tons in 3000 kilograms? How many hectograms in 400 grams? 5. How many grams in 75 decagrams? How many kilograms in 5 metric tons ? 6. How many kilos in 4 quintals? How many tons in 40 quintals? 1. Express 16 Kg. 7 Dg. 8 g. as grams. 2. Write 45 Dg. 2 g. 9 dg. as grams. Ans. 452.9 g. 3. In 82.13 g., how many decigrams? 4. How many milligrams in 15 g. 4 dg.? 5. Change 837.52 cg. to grams. 6. Reduce 703.49 g. to hectograms. Ans.8.3752 g. 7. How many metric tons in 9860.50 kilograms? WRITTEN Ans. 9.8605 T. REVIEW. 1. Find the sum of 71 m. 2.5 Hm. and 6 dm. Ans. 321.6 m. NOTE. The ordinary operations in metric measures, are performed according to the principles of decimals. 2. What is the difference between 127 Km. 3 Dm., and 274 Hm. 4 dm.? Ans. 99629.6 m. 3. Find the cost of 16.25 m. of cloth, at $2.50 per meter. Ans. $40.621. 4. How much did I receive for 63.75 Dl. of milk, at 64 a liter? Ans. $38.25. 5. A man bought 36.42 hectares of land, at $1.25 per What was the cost of the land? Ans. $4552.50. 6. What is the value of a cubical bin of grain whose edge is 3 meters, at $1.25 per hectoliter? are. 7. A grocer bought 542 Kg. of raisins, at 20¢ a kilo, and sold them at 254 a pound. How much did he gain? 8. A room is 120 dm. long, and 75 dm. wide. Howmuch will it cost to plaster the ceiling, at 2244 per square meter? Ans. $20.25. n 20 steres ere, and sold at $2.59 a ori? Lic meters " cles cle: to 1 1 e de eight of a pile of wood which a. vide, and contains 259.17 steres rung of lectograms : Vinge vile the ront n 150 liters of molasses *** "leces *p* zem iter, and sold at 284 a gailon ? an be made of a bar t Ans. 5.4 m. Ans. 1790 pieces. 17 408,5 Km, an hour* Tem # fatal, containing 76 Kg, of sugar, were 44.50 Eg, ach, and four parcels Ans. 141.68 miles. How many jets can be fed by a masometer holding m. if each jet born 150 in an hour, and is A hours perry Atening? 15m high, with paper 20 cm. Blood the east of papering & * cll, at sop a roll ? wile, and 6.25 m. in Ans. $83.20. thout would she have paid for it in Paris, at 85 per Ans. $317.63. |