#unit conversion

[themisstakenidentity]

Mr. Taken got us these 3 little mini-pies for Pi Day and we split them so I had ³⁄₂ pies, and my brain was like, ³⁄₂π? I should have heated them up at 270°.

[er-cryptid]

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[strayplots]

Pi Day Prompt 11

Imagine your OTP. Person A is from America, and Person B is from another country. While driving around in the US, A keeps saying the wrong numbers when reading speed limit signs, much to B's confusion.

A: "Seventy-two."

B: "The sign says forty-five, A."

A: "Yeah, seventy-two."

B: "What the- can you not read? It clearly says-"

A: "Well, I thought you'd be more comfortable with kilometers per hour…"

B: "...what."

*pause*

B: "How are you doing that in your head, you say it right after seeing the sign."

A: "It's a simple ratio. Five-to-eight."

*no response*

[randomfandomteacher]

An example ACT Math Test question.

Try it for yourself first, then “keep reading” for the answer:

[scientistsarepeopletoo]

Adventures in Grading Midterms 1

No, your units are not magically just going to become the ones required by the problem . . . You actually have to convert them.

[themisstakenidentity]

Celsius 232.8

[er-cryptid]

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[a-thousand-tiny-little-ants]

Wrote this out for a classmate in money and banking

For any unit conversions, you can just make a ‘railroad’ with all of the individual unit equalities and multiply them out, remembering that these are really just fractions. You can flip conversions as long as the amount of the unit on top is still equal to the amount of the unit on the bottom.

I learnt it from engineering classes and it makes unit conversion much easier than multiplying individual conversions

(The units in the middle example are Swiss franks, great British pounds, and United States Dollars)