{"id":1058,"date":"2017-01-11T00:18:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymakermath4libarts\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1058"},"modified":"2021-02-05T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T23:48:07","slug":"introduction-units-of-measurement","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/chapter\/introduction-units-of-measurement\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to US Units of Measurement","rendered":"Introduction to US Units of Measurement"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Make calculations and solve application problems involving units of measurement<\/h2>\r\n<strong>Measurement<\/strong> is a number that describes the size or amount of something. You can measure many things like length, area, capacity, weight, temperature and time. In the United States, two main systems of measurement are used: the <strong>metric system<\/strong> and the <strong>U.S. customary measurement system<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4685\/2017\/01\/17210715\/car-1643663_1920.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4569\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4685\/2017\/01\/17210715\/car-1643663_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a car speedometer\" width=\"513\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIn this section we will explore units for length, weight, and capacity, as well as solve problems that involve converting between different units of length, weight or capacity.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Make calculations and solve application problems involving units of measurement<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Measurement<\/strong> is a number that describes the size or amount of something. You can measure many things like length, area, capacity, weight, temperature and time. In the United States, two main systems of measurement are used: the <strong>metric system<\/strong> and the <strong>U.S. customary measurement system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4685\/2017\/01\/17210715\/car-1643663_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4569\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4685\/2017\/01\/17210715\/car-1643663_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a car speedometer\" width=\"513\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this section we will explore units for length, weight, and capacity, as well as solve problems that involve converting between different units of length, weight or capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1058","chapter","type-chapter","status-web-only","hentry"],"part":658,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1058\/revisions\/4692"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/658"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1058\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/slcc-mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}