Time, Weight, and Measurement Conversions

Time Conversions:

• • 1 minute = 60 seconds

  • 1 hour = 60 minutes

  • 1 day = 24 hours

  • 1 week = 7 days

  • 1 month = 28, 29, 30, or 31 days

    • • Months of the Year Poem:

Thirty days hath September,

April, June, and November.

All the rest have 31,

except February-- it has 28. (29 in a "Leap Year")

• • 1 year = 365 days (366 in a Leap Year)

  • 1 year = 52 weeks

  • 1 year = 12 months

  • 1 decade = 10 years

  • 1 century = 100 years

Tables of Weights and Measures:

• • English Units: Length

    • 1 foot (ft.) = 12 inches (in.)

  • 1 yard (yd.) = 3 feet

  • 1 mile (mi.) = 5, 280 feet

  • 1 mile = 1,760 yards

• English Units: Weights

  • • 1 pound (lb.) = 16 ounces (oz.)

    • 1 ton (tn.) = 2,000 pounds

• • English Units: Liquid Volume

    • 1 pint (pt.) = 2 cups

    • 1 quart (qt.) = 2 pints

    • 1 gallon (gal.) = 4 quarts

• • Metric Units: Length

    • 1 meter (m) = 100 centimeters (cm.)

  • 1 kilometer (km) = 1,000 meters

  • Metric Units: Weight

  • 1 kilogram (kg.) = 1,000 grams (g.)

  • Metric Units: Liquid Volume

  • 1 liter (l.) = 1,000 milliliters (ml.)

  • 1 kiloliter (kl) = 1,000 liters