Conversion tables for feet and inches to centimeters (height) and pounds to kilograms (weight).

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"Carefully study the reviews about your new brand or product before you buy it!"

How often have you seen such reviews:

"I'm 5 ′ 8 ″ 180 and the large was huge on me, the length is above the ankles but well below the knee. I’ve always had a small waist for my size even after gaining 25lbs over the ... "

« I'm a very large woman ( 5'6 ″ tall and 260lbs... Size 48DDD chest. I wanted a long dress that was basic and comfy vs a "moo-moo" This thing fit the bill. Of… «

“I bought one in every color! I am petite ( 5 ′ 2 ″) and I like that it comes right across the tops of my feet! Pairs perfectly with… "

What do these numbers, unusual for the Belarusian eye, mean? Just height and weight (yes, not parameters (90-60-90), as is customary in our country, but weight).

To measure length, Americans use feet and inches, and to measure weight - pounds... So, the first review given as an example was written by a person with a height of 173 cm and a weight of 82 kg (5 ′ 8 ″ 180).

If you, like me, do not like to study the reviews of happy and not very American buyers with a calculator in your hands, then here is a glorious table for converting feet and inches to centimeters to help us all:

If you need a different length that does not fit in the table, you still have to arm yourself with a calculator:

1 Foot (Foot) = 30.48 cm

1 Inch (Inch) = 2.54cm

I still have not learned to navigate in the size of clothes by the weight of a person. But, suddenly, you are in this guru? Then this table for converting pounds to kilograms will help you:

1 Pound = 0.454 kg

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Despite the invention of the decimal system, which is now used by the whole world, American and English measures of length are often found in everyday life. Let's take the diagonal of the TV. In the technical passports, warranty cards, the size in inches is indicated everywhere. The same applies to the diameter of pipes, sizes of tools, bolts, nuts. In order not to look stupid in situations with unfamiliar values, you need to have an idea of ​​the main ones.

Measures of length

Our ancestors did not have digital and magnetic devices capable of measuring the required value. Therefore, for convenience, they used the yardstick of their own body, that is, what is always with them. These were feet, fingers, elbows, steps, palms.

• Mile as the most popular value, adopted throughout the world to indicate the distance of air and land routes.

1 mile (mil) = 1609 m

1 nautical mile = 1852 m

• The main size of the American system is considered to be a foot.

1 foot (ft) = 30.48 cm

The foot value is native to England. This value measured a distance equal to 16 feet and it was called a stock (stock).

• Size inch was popular in all European countries before the introduction of the SI system. It was calculated by the length of the joint of the thumb or its width at the base.

1 inch (in) = 25.4 mm

It is believed that the size of an inch was determined by three grains of barley, laid along one after the other. According to another version, the component of an inch was 1/36 of a yard, which was established by King Henry I in 1101. Its length was equal to the distance from the middle finger of his right hand to the tip of his nose.

• Yard was originally taken as the average stride length.

1 yard (yd) = 0.9144 m

• Line - used in military science to indicate the caliber of a weapon.

1 line (ln) = 2.12 mm

• League... The meaning of the league has long been used in naval battles to determine the distance of a cannon shot. Later it began to be used for land and postal affairs.

1 league = 4.83 km

Measures rarely used in daily life

1 mil = 0.025 mm

1 hand = 10.16 cm

1 genus = 5.029 m

1 chain = 20.12 m (for surveyors) and 30.48 m (for builders)

1 furlong = 201.17 m

1 faton = 1.83 m

1 ale = 1.14 m

1 pace = 0.76 m

1 qubit = 46-56 cm

1 bed = 22.86 cm

1 link = 20.12 cm (for surveyors) and 30.48 cm (for builders)

1 wing = 11.43 cm

1 nail = 5.71 cm

1 barleycorn = 8.47 mm

1 point = 0.353 mm

1 cable = 219.5 m (in England it is 183 m)

Most popular units

The United States is the only developed country that has abandoned the metric system. In addition to the States, 2 more countries do not use the SI system, these are Liberia and Myanmar.

Once in this country, do not be surprised if, in cold, damp weather, you ask on the street how many degrees, and you will be told that plus 32. Just 0 degrees Celsius, this is the American 32 Fahrenheit. When driving to a gas station, remember to convert liters to gallons. Our 3.78 liters are equivalent to a gallon.

• Barrel Is a measure of volume for bulk materials and liquids.

Translated from English means barrel. In the world, calculating oil in barrels is recognized as the most convenient, therefore oil companies set prices in dollars per barrel.

1 barrel (bbl) = 158.9 liters

1 dry barrel = 115.6 liters

Especially for calculating the volume of beer in the UK, the concept of a beer barrel was introduced. Its value changed over time and depended on the type of drink (ale or beer). The value has finally been established since 1824 and amounted to 163.66 liters per 1 barrel.

• Bushel- a measure of volume for dry matter in agriculture (measured the volume of grain, vegetables, fruits). In international trade, a container weighing 18 kg is taken as a bushel.

1 bushel (bu) = 35.24 liters

• Gallon- the same as the barrel. The gallon, in turn, is subdivided into a pint and an ounce.

1 gallon for liquid (gl) = 3.79 dm 3

1 gallon for bulk solids (gl) = 4.4 dm 3

1 pint = 1/8 gallon = 0.47 dm 3

1 ounce = 1/16 pint = 29.57 ml

An ounce has retained its value since ancient times and was approximately equal to 30 g. In the American system, the concept of an ounce is widely used in the pharmaceutical and jewelry business.

• Quart- unit of measure for the volume of a container, equal to ¼ gallons

1 quart for liquid = 0.946 liters

1 quart for dry matter = 1.1 liters

Area measures

The greatest distribution in world literature is found by a square acre.

Its original designation was used to calculate the area of ​​land that one peasant with one ox could cultivate.

Converting an acre to SI is very simple. If we divide the number by 10, we get the result in meters. And if divided by 2 - in hectares.

1 inch (sq. In) = 6.45 cm 2

1 foot (sq. Ft) = 929 cm 2

1 yard (sq.yd) = 0.836 m 2

1 mile (sq.mi) = 2.59 km 2

1 acre (a) = 4046.86 m 2

Volume measures

What is the volume for?

• to describe the capacity of household appliances
• for shipping containers
• to determine the amount of gas
• to describe the capacity of commercial warehouses

The most common measure of three-dimensional space is the foot. A cubic foot is defined as the volume of a cube, with an edge of 1 foot. Less commonly used values ​​are yard and inch.

To get a cubic volume, you need to multiply the length, height and width.

1 ton (register) = 2.83 m 3

1 yard = 0.76 m 3

1 foot = 28.32 dm 3

1inch = 16.39cm 3

Weights

• Pound - Used as a measure of weight and to describe mass.

In the United States, pounds are used to express pressure per square inch. The pound is also used to describe the weight of ammunition (shells, shells, bullets).

To convert pounds to kilograms, you need to divide the number of pounds by 2.2

1 lb (lb) = 453.59 g

• An ounce is a measure of weight that has found application in jewelry, banking, for determining the weight of precious metals and stones, as well as in the pharmaceutical industry.

To convert an ounce to kilograms, you need to divide its quantity by 35.2

1 ounce (oz) = 28.35 g

• Stone is a unit of measurement used to describe the weight of the human body..

1 stone (st) = 6.35 kg

• Short Ton - A measure of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds... In the United States, it is also known, but practically not used, a long ton, which is equal to 2,240 trading pounds.

1 short ton = 907.18 kg

1 long ton = 1016 kg

If you are traveling to America, check out the local standard of measure. This way you will avoid embarrassing situations and choose the right question for you. You don't have to memorize numbers to do this. It is enough to download a simple converter to your phone.

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A Few Facts About British Imperial and American Weights and Measures

Many have heard that there are British imperial and American systems of measures and weights. Do you know how they differ? These two systems are closely related, they both originated from the English system, which, in turn, is also based on the system of measures of Ancient Rome. The American and British systems of measures are so close that they are often confused. And it is not surprising, given that often in these systems the names of the units coincide, although their meanings may differ.

Unit history

The units of measurement that are used today in the United States and partly in Great Britain became widespread during the Norman conquests. The yard is the only unit that has remained virtually unchanged from those times. The yard replaced the previously used elbow (ell). Chain is another measure that came from old Angia that has hardly changed. On the other hand, the foot in use today has changed from the original foot. Today the rod is 16.5 feet, but originally there were exactly 15. Furlong and acre have not changed much in the last thousand years. They were originally a measure of the value of land, but later became simply units of area.

Confusion with British pounds

Differences between the British and American systems

Probably the most unusual are the units of volume. A US liquid gallon is 0.83 British gallons and a US dry gallon is 0.97 British gallons. In the UK, the gallon is the same for liquid and bulk solids.

US independence

After the US Declaration of Independence, America seceded and developed its own system of weights and measures. That is why today the values ​​of American and British gallons, pounds, yards differ. Ultimately, the governments of the two countries decided to work together and introduce precise definitions of yard and foot, based on copies of the official standards that the British Parliament adopted in 1850. True, I had to admit that these "official" standards were not of very high quality and could not provide the accuracy required in the modern world. Therefore, in 1960, the two governments officially redefined pounds and yards based on the metric standards. And although the changes in 1960 were very small in magnitude, their consequence was the emergence of two parallel standards for measures of length in the United States - land surveying measures (old standard) and international measures (new, tied to metric units).

Differences between US and UK units are often the subject of discussion and jokes among tourists. For example, in England beer is sold in pints, while a British pint is larger than a US pint. This spawns endless jokes about Americans unable to calculate their drinking and Brits who always have too high prices per gallon of gasoline.

What are the other differences in units?

Until 1960, the British yard and pound did not differ significantly from their American counterparts, at least for everyday use - measuring small distances or selling, for example, products. But there were some differences, even in this common use. For example, in the United States, short distances are usually denoted in feet, and in England, in yards.

It’s hard to believe, but people are still alive who grew up among a different system of measurement and other units. In the old imperial system, there was a stone unit equal to 14 pounds. Eight stones were a hundredweight, and a ton was equal to 20 centners or 2240 pounds. There are no stones in the American system, and the centner in it is equal to 100 pounds. Accordingly, a ton is obtained equal to 2000 pounds. The round value of 2000 is easier to remember than 2240, but the existence of two different options for tons and centners leads to confusion, especially in international trade. To make it easier for people in different countries to understand the difference when talking about a ton, the British ton is often called long ton, and the American ton is called short ton. And then there's the metric tonne!

If you think the modern system is too confusing, think of those who lived in the 19th century. Thomas Jefferson, in his "Plan for the Establishment of Uniform Standards for Coins, Weights and Measures," noted that there were 14 different definitions of the gallon in the United States alone. The smallest of the gallons contained 224 cubic inches and the largest contained 282 cubic inches. The difference is more than a quarter! Ultimately, the Queen Anne gallon was chosen as the official one.

To facilitate international oil trade, a unit of measurement was chosen - a barrel. One barrel equals 159 liters or 42 US gallons. Precious metals are traded in troy ounces, one troy ounce equals 31.10 grams.

Ultimately, the whole world will probably come to a single system of measurements. Most likely, it will be the metric system. But so far we still live in a world where a wild mixture of systems and units coexists, including units that have the same name, but with different meanings. Isn't our world a little crazy?

Regions that do not use the metric system as the main one are marked in red. Not many countries, right?

The most difficult thing when moving to America, most immigrants consider the transition to a different system of measurements: instead of the usual meters, degrees Celsius and kilograms, a completely new world falls on people, in which all the usual realities are measured completely, from their point of view, illogical.

But one bike says that the United States actually had the opportunity to live according to the metric system, but they were prevented from doing this ... by the British pirates!

This story was published by the Washington Post newspaper, along the way lamenting that Americans still have the opportunity to "change their minds" and switch to a "more understandable, simple and logical" metric system - or, as it is now called - the International System of Units (fr. Le Systeme International d'Unites, SI).

However, we are talking about the times when the Parisian scientists decided for the first time to bring all units of measurement with a single system. To this end, they invited the American Congress to come to a general agreement. At the time, Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State, who welcomed the unification of the measurement system. So in 1793 a ship was sent from Paris towards America, on which the botanist and aristocrat Joseph Dombey was carrying two metric standards: a rod exactly one meter long and a copper cylinder weighing exactly one kilogram.

Unfortunately, on the way across the Atlantic, the ship with Dombey on board was caught in a storm, and they were eventually brought by the current into the Caribbean Sea - right into the hands of the local pirates. In fact, the pirates did not consider themselves as such: they were British subjects, who were given permission by the Queen herself to attack any non-British ships. But in essence, they were still piracy. So the French crew, along with the academician, were imprisoned (Joseph Dombey did not last long in captivity and soon died), and all the property found on the ship, including the standards, was sold at auction.

US copy of the 1 kg standard.

But this is of course just a bike ...

It is believed that the SI system was never approved in the United States. She is so imperceptible in this country that a person who does not go into details can get such an impression. But it is absolutely not true! A number of acts have been passed establishing it as the official system of weights and measures of the United States. How, then, did it happen that Americans still use ancient units of measurement? The fact is that all adopted acts are advisory (and not mandatory) for private business and ordinary residents of the country. This means that every American has the right to measure with the usual inches and weigh in pounds familiar from childhood. And this right is enjoyed not only by people, but also by giant corporations.

There are only three countries in the world that have not yet switched to the SI system. These are the USA, Liberia and Myanmar (until 1989 - Burma). The rest of the peoples of the world either switched to the metric system completely, or at least officially adopted it as a standard. Another thing is how things are among the people. In Russia even now they can call a kilometer a “mile” in conversation, but at the same time everyone clearly understands that we are talking about the most ordinary metric kilometer, and not about the old Russian mile.

But in the United States, the old folk system of measures and weights is used not only in everyday life. Football fields are measured in yards. Work done by car engines in outlandish foot-pounds. Atmospheric pressure is in pounds per square inch.

The United States uses the U.S. instead of the SI system. Customary System It includes more than three hundred units of measurement of various physical quantities. The difficulty lies in the fact that many of these units of measurement are named the same, but mean completely different things.

Here is the simplest and most understandable for everyone, even those who are very far from engineering wisdom. It would seem, what can be difficult in a ton? This is a thousand kilograms and nothing else! But in the US, there are at least nine definitions of ton: short ton, displacement ton, refrigeration ton, nuclear ton, freight ton , register ton, metric ton, assay ton, fuel ton or ton of coal equivalent.

And despite all these obvious difficulties, neither in business nor in everyday life in the United States is a simple, understandable and unambiguous metric system used. The reasons for this lie, as is often the case, in the history of this country.

At first, the attitude of the United States to the metric system was determined by its relationship with France.

In the colonies of Britain, the British Imperial System was used. At the end of the 18th century, the metric system was developed in France. Which, of course, was not accepted by either Britain itself or its colonies.

When the United States gained independence, attempts were made in the country to streamline the measurement system. But they rested, as is often the case, in the financial issue. Thomas Jefferson, who served as US Secretary of State under George Washington, favored the decimal system. But it turned out that it would be impossible to determine the metric units of length without sending a delegation to France. And that was a costly affair.

Relations with France, which had supported the United States in its struggle for independence, entered a cooling stage after 1795. When in 1798 France invited representatives of various countries to familiarize themselves with the metric system, Americans were faced with disdain for themselves.

And, nevertheless, representatives of the United States visited Paris and were delighted with the metric system. But the likelihood of convincing the country's leaders of the need to switch to a new system of weights and measures coming from France was very weak. In 1821, US Secretary of State John Quincy studied the units of measurement of 22 states in the country and concluded that the U.S. The Customary System is fairly unified and does not need to be changed.

Napoleon reigned in France, and the Americans had doubts that the French themselves would remain faithful to the system of measures and weights they had created. As a result, consideration of the metric system in the United States at this historical stage was discontinued. But this does not mean that they did not return to it again and again as the SI system gained more and more recognition in the most different parts of our vast world.

In 1865, the American Civil War ended. The Americans looked around and found that most European countries had switched to the decimal metric system. And this obvious fact in the United States could no longer be ignored. In 1866, the country's Congress passed an act, according to which the metric system became official for use in all contracts, transactions and lawsuits.

Nine years later, France brought together representatives of the world's leading countries to discuss the details of a new international version of the metric system. The United States received an invitation and sent a delegation. The representatives of these countries signed an international convention, founding the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Committee for Weights and Measures, whose tasks were to consider and adopt changes.

The agreement provided for the creation of a special hall in the French city of Serve near Paris, where the standards of metric standards, in particular the standard of the meter, were to be placed. This made it possible to avoid difficulties in understanding by different peoples what exactly is meant by a particular unit of measurement.

In 1890, the United States received copies of the international standard for the meter and the international standard for the kilogram. By the Mendenhall Ordinance (named for the Superintendent of Weights and Measures), metric units were adopted as the fundamental standard for length and mass in the United States. The yard was defined as 3600/3937 meters, and the pound as 0.4535924277 kilograms.

In 1959, English-speaking countries made some adjustments: 1 yard equated to 0.9144 meters, and 1 pound to 0.4535923. That is, formally, the United States has already adopted the metric system for 145 years as the standard of measures and weights, and for about 120 years in this country everything should be measured in meters and kilograms. But, as practice shows, making a decision does not mean its implementation in real life.

Many prominent scientists and politicians in the United States were supporters of the obligatoryness of the metric system for the whole country. In 1971, it looked like the United States was finally going to be among the countries to adopt the metric system. The National Bureau of Standards released the Metric America report recommending that the country switch to metric within ten years.

In 1975, Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act, the essence of which was the same as the recommendations of the standards experts, but with only two important differences. There was no strict time frame, and the very transition to the metric system assumed voluntariness. As a result, the country's schoolchildren began to go through the SI system, and some companies attempted "metrification", which turned into futile propaganda, since there was no real action to switch to metric units.

It turned out that the United States uses units of measurement that are already forgotten in the rest of the world. An increasing number of consumers of American products began to demand that the supplied goods be accompanied by the indication of characteristics in the metric system. As American companies opened more and more production facilities in Europe and Asia, it became necessary to decide which units to use: metric or traditional American.

Recognizing these complexities, in 1988 Congress amended the Metric Conversion Act to make the metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures in the United States for trade and commerce." At the end of 1992, federal agencies were required to use metric units when measuring quantities related to procurement, grants, and other matters pertaining to business activity. But these instructions concerned only state structures. Private business remained free to use the familiar measurement system. Attempts have been made to interest small businesses in the metric system, but there has been little progress.

To date, only about 30% of the products manufactured in the USA are "metrified". The pharmaceutical industry in the United States is referred to as “strictly metric,” because all characteristics of a country's pharmaceutical products are reported in metric units only. Beverages have designations in both metric and traditional US systems of values. This industry is considered "mildly metric". The metric system is also used in the United States by film, tool and bicycle manufacturers. For the rest, in the United States, they prefer to measure in the old fashioned way. In ancient inches and pounds. And this applies even to such a young industry as high technology.

What prevents a highly industrialized country from switching to the system of measures and weights generally accepted on our planet? There are a number of reasons for this.

Conservatism and Cost Prevent Metric Conversion

One of the reasons is the costs that would have to be borne by the country's economy in the event of the transition to the SI system. After all, technical drawings and instructions for the most complex equipment would have to be revised. This would require a lot of work of highly paid specialists. And, therefore, money. For example, NASA engineers reported that converting space shuttle blueprints, software and documentation to metric units would cost US $ 370 million, about half the cost of a conventional space shuttle launch.

But the high costs of the transition alone will not explain the cool attitude of Americans to the metric system. Psychological factors play their own, and not the least, role in restraining the country's transition to an international system of measures and weights. The stubborn conservatism of Americans makes them resist any innovation, especially those that come from foreigners.

Americans always love to do things their own way. Individualism is the main feature of the representatives of this people. The descendants of the conquerors of the vast expanses of the Wild West stubbornly reject attempts to force them to abandon their usual childhood inches and pounds.

No high technology can force a person to reconsider their conservative views. For example, commercial mobile communications have been around since 1947. But it only really became interesting in the early 1980s. Events happen only when the consciousness of the average person is ready to accept them. And this, in turn, is possible only if a person sees the meaning in it. And the average American simply does not see much sense for himself personally in the metric system.

Therefore, all efforts to introduce the metric system in the United States run up against the impregnable stronghold of the everyday life of ordinary citizens of the country, who do not want to let meters and kilograms in there. There is another important reason, which we talked about a little earlier. A significant part of the largest corporations in the world are located in the United States. Their products are competitive in the global market, even in spite of the unusual inches and pounds. What's unusual there! The whole world will be very surprised if one day the diagonal of the screen of the next smartphone will be indicated in centimeters familiar from the school bench, and not in inches, seemingly descended from the pages of a history textbook. This means that Americans have no reason to abandon their traditional system of weights and measures.

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It is impossible to learn any foreign language without researching the cultural characteristics of a given country. To better understand the language itself, it is necessary to pay attention to the realities, traditions, linguistic and cultural differences of the nation. In our case, we are talking about the English-speaking population (as usual, we take the UK and the USA). English (American) units (units of measurement) just refer to those features in which it is desirable to understand in order to fully understand their written and oral speech.

You have probably come across English (American) units of measurement more than once. For example, I often met them in English-language literature, news, TV shows, movies, etc. How to cook an interesting dish according to an English or American recipe? All ingredients are also listed in ounces and pounds. Sometimes you read a book in English, come to it and stop, trying to figure out how tall he is. After all, it is measured in feet and inches, which is unusual for us, because many do not know the meaning of these values. We have a metric system, give us meters and centimeters. Or you listen to world news in English: again, discussing oil prices. And one barrel costs so much and so much. How much is in this barrel? For us, liters are more familiar. And they measure liquids in gallons, and weigh everything in pounds and ounces.

If you have already encountered similar situations, then, obviously, looked into the table of English (American) units of measurement in order to roughly estimate what quantities are in question. If you haven't tried it yet, let's figure it out.

English (American) linear measures

According to the English system of units of measure ( British Imperial System of measurement), which is used in Great Britain, the United States of America and other states, the main linear measures ( linear measure) are the following values:

1. Inch ( inch) = 25.4 mm (2.54 cm)
2. Foot ( foot) = 0.3048 m (or 12 inches)
3. Yard ( yard) = 0.9144 m (or 3 feet)
4. Mile ( mile) = 1.609 km (or 1.760 yards)
5. Hand ( hand) = 10.16 cm (or 4 inches)

Note that the nautical mile ( nautical mile) is somewhat different - 1.8532 (England) and 1.852 (USA). If you need to convert the footage as quickly as possible, divide the footage by three. And if you want to quickly transform the length in miles into kilometers, multiply the number by 1.5 (or divide the number of miles by 5 and multiply by 8). Get a rough estimate in each case. By the way, a yard is almost a meter (91.44 cm), you can safely round it off.

The common narwhal or sea unicorn often attains a length of sixty feet. - The common narwhal whale is often 60 feet (20 meters) long.

She wears classic 5 inch high heels. - She wears classic shoes with 5 inches (12-13 cm) heels.

English (American) area measures

Under the area units ( square measure) we understand any values ​​in the "square", namely:

1. Square inch ( square inch) = 6.45 cm²
2. Square foot ( square foot) = 929 cm²
3. Square yard ( square yard) = 0.836 m2
4. Square mile ( square mile) = 2.59 km²
5. Acre ( acre) = 0.405 ha = 4046.86 m2

The new meaning is acre. To quickly convert acres to hectares, multiply the value by 0.4. Even faster is to divide by two. The approximate area in hectares will become known. The easier thing with square feet is to divide the number by 10 and you have the value in meters.

We bought an old house on five acres. - We bought a new house on five acres of land (2 ha).

How many square yards are there in a square meter? - How many square yards per square meter?

English (American) weights

In what units are the British or Americans used to measure the weight of a substance ( weight measure), product, etc.?

1. Ounce ( ounce, oz) = 28.35 g
2. Pound ( pound) = 453.59 g (or 16 oz)
3. Stone ( stone) = 6.35 kg (or 14 lb) - used primarily in the United States
4. Short ton ( short ton) = 907.18 kg
5. Long ton ( long ton) = 1016 kg

You've probably already noticed that the basic unit of measurement, the pound, is almost half a kilogram. Therefore, it will not be difficult to convert the number you need to pounds and vice versa. To indicate, for example, your weight in pounds, simply double it.

Baby Brianna weighed 13 ounces at birth. - Little Brianna weighed 13 ounces (370 g) at birth.

How to lose 20 pounds forever in exercise and diet? - How to get rid of 20 pounds (9 kg) permanently through exercise and diet?

English (American) measures of volume

Among the main English (American) units of measurement of volume ( cubic measure) should be called:

1. Cubic inch = 16.39 cm³
2. Cubic foot = 0.028 m³
3. Cubic yard = 0.76 m³

How many cubic yards does this dump truck hold? - How many cubic yards does this dump truck hold?

The USA has more than 2200 trillion cubic feet of gas waiting to be pumped, enough to satisfy nearly 100 years of current US natural-gas demand. - The US has more than 22 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, which is enough to provide the US for the next hundred years at current consumption levels.

English (American) measures of liquids and bulk solids

How do they measure liquid substances ( liquid measure)?

1. Butt ( butt) = 490.97 l
2. Barrel ( barrel) = 163.65 l ( GB) / 119.2 l ( US)
3. Barrel (oil) = 158.988 L ( GB) / 158.97 l ( US)
4. Gallon ( gallon) = 4.546 l ( GB) / 3,784 l ( US)
5. Pint ( pint) = 0.57 l ( GB) / 0.473 l ( US)
6. Fluid ounce ( fluid ounce) = 28.4 ml

How many ounces of water should I drink every day? - How many ounces of water should I drink per day?

How many gallons of gasoline are consumed in the USA? - How many gallons of fuel does the US population consume?