mike2345

No need to apologize DJBruce. Well I'm actually doing distance education so all my interactions with my teacher is through emails. My school is located in a town about an hour and a half away and I can't get out there. I honestly don't know why I am having such a problem with this. I've always excelled in science and math but this conversion I just can't seem to wrap my brain around. I keep trying to picture these conversions done on the metric number line and it doesn't work for me.

I can't thank everyone enough, how much you guys have tried to help me but I'm still not understanding. Even after Sisyphus's very detailed explanation. I think you have to know when to throw in the towel. So thank you again.

Okay so, there is 100 decaliters in 1 kiloliter so to change decaliters to decameters: 100dam x 100dam x 100dam = 1,000,000dam^3 For 1 decaliter to cubic decimeters: There is 100 deciliters in 1 decaliter so to change decaliters into decimeters: 100dm x 100dm x 100dm = 1,000,000dm^3.

Thanks for the replies. Okay so then how would you convert 1kiloliter to cubic decameters? And 1 decaliter to cubic decimeters?

Hello darkenlighten, thanks for replying. Okay so I understand part of it. ml=cc. So 20kL is 20,000,000cc. What I'm having trouble with is why 1 liter is equal to 1 cubic decimeter and why 1ml is equal to 1 cubic centimeter? Does it work this way all the way across the metric number line?? Again I'm sorry for so many questions.

Hey DJBruce, thank you very much for replying. I'm sorry but I'm still confused:confused: If possible, would you mind explaining it to me in a different way????

Hello, this is my first time posting:-) I have a question about conversion. I'm doing grade 8 science and in my book it says that the unit of "cc" is the same as "mL". This is all the info they give me. Then I'm asked to convert this value: 100 microL to cc? I have no idea how to do this so I looked in the answer key and the answer is: 0.1mL=0.1cc. Would someone be willing to explain the how and why? It would be greatly appreciated!!!