Introductory Chemistry: An Active Learning Approach
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Author: Mark S. Cracolice, Ed Peters
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 115E
How tall are you in (a) meters; (b) decimeters; (c) centimeters; (d) millimeters? Which of the four metric units do you think would be most useful in expressing people’s heights without resorting to decimal fractions?
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Introductory Chemistry: An Active Learning Approach
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