When we need to buy meat, vegetables, fruits, vegetables, rice, beans, sugar and other products, we use mass measures such as grams and kilograms. The gram is the main existing mass measure, the biggest measures are called multiples and the smallest ones, submultiples.
As multiples of the gram we have the decagram (dag), the hectogram (hg) and the kilogram (kg).
The submultiples of the gram are the decigram (dg), the centigram (cg) and the milligram (mg).
Conversions
1 kilogram (kg) has 1000 grams (g)
1 hectogram (hg) has 100 grams (g)
1 decagram (dg) has 10 grams (g)
1 gram (g) is equal to:
10 decagrams (dg)
100 decigrams (cg)
1000 milligrams (mg)
In situations involving domestic products such as meat, rice, corn, beans, fruits, vegetables, among others, we can use gram (g) or kilogram (kg).
When we are referring to very large weights, such as loads of trucks, trains, ships and planes, we use the ton (t). The ton is equal to 1000 kilograms (kg) or 1 000 000 grams (g).
Another measure of mass widely used in weighing animals and agricultural products, such as tobacco and cotton, is the arroba, which corresponds to 15 kilograms (kg).
by Mark Noah
Mathematical
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