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If a substance weighs 2.00 grams and you need the mass in kilograms, will the number appear to become smaller or larger?

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Answer:

The number will appear smaller

Step-by-step explanation:

Grams and Kilograms are two units of measuring the weight of substances. These two units are interchangeable/interconvertible.

One kilograms of a substance contains 1000 grams of that substance (kilo=thousand). Hence, for a substance weighing 2.00grams whose weight measurement is needed in kilograms, it will be converted by dividing the weight in grams by 1000.

That is, 2.00g/1000 = 0.002kilograms or 2.00 × 10^-3kg. According to the number after conversion, it appeared SMALLER because the kilograms (kg) is a bigger measurement compared to the grams (g).

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