Question

Knowing the meaning of metric system prefixes can help you write your own conversion factors. In the metric system, the base unit for mass is the gram. What do you think the conversion factor for gram-to-kilograms would be?

Answer 1

1000grams = 1kilogram

Explanation:

The kilogram is the standard international unit for measuring the mass of an object. Other lower units are the grams (g), milligrams (mg) etc.

Metric systems are systems of units for measuring quantity of an object. Since gram is a lower unit for kilogram, hence kilogram is a higher unit. The

conversion unit is expressed as;

1000grams = 1kilogram