Units of Conversion: Square (Area) Measure - Example 3

Basic to the understanding of unit conversion is the understanding of equivalence, the understanding of the multiplicative identity of 1, and how the two are related. For a review of these concepts, click on Review.

If you have forgotten how to manipulate fractions, visit Fractions for Adults on SOSMath for an in-depth review.

Review the following table (Webster's New World Dictionary, Second Edition, Simon and Schuster, 1982) of Standard Units of Conversion to see if you can create fractions that have a value of 1. You can click to examples following each table.

Square Measure

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Example 3: Convert 6,000 square decameters to sections.

Solution: Look for a series of links from decameter to section.

As you work more and more of this conversion problems, you can leave out a lot of steps and simply "cross out" similar units. In the original set-up

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Just be sure that you remember why you are allowed to do the cancelling.

If you would like to work some problems click on Problems.

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Author: Nancy Marcus

Sun Aug 10 20:52:57 MDT 1997

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