Question

7. An engineer is proof-reading his report and finds that he has mistakenly usedmicrometers as a unit of measure. His experiment showed a measurement of 2micrometers, but the government requires the measurement to be in millimeters.How should the engineer record the measurement (if there are 1000micrometers in 1 millimeter)?

Answer 1

Given

An engineer is proof-reading his report and finds that he has mistakenly used micrometers as a unit of measure. His experiment showed a measurement of 2 micrometers.

Find

How should the engineer record the measurement in millimeters

Step-by-step explanation

Let engineer record the measurement be x millimeters

1000 micrometers = 1 millimeter

so , according to the question ,

`\begin{gathered} (2)/(x)=(1000)/(1) \\ \\ x=(2)/(1000) \\ \\ x=0.002 \end{gathered}`

Final Answer

Therefore , the engineer record the measurement is 0.002 millimeters