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martin needs to ship a box that weight 1200 grams . how should he move the decimal to convert this number to kilograms

User Neferpitou
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He should move left 3 decimal places, because 1 g= 1*10^(-3) kg.

1200 g = 1.2 kg.

The final answer is 1.2 kg~
User Axelrotter
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Divide the given:1200 grams into 100= 1.2 kilograms
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