Comments on: Converting Kilos to pounds http://memorymentor.com/blog/mental-tips-tricks/converting-kilos-to-pounds/ Improve memory, multiply sums like a genius, Personal Development Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:57:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: vikram http://memorymentor.com/blog/mental-tips-tricks/converting-kilos-to-pounds/#comment-312 vikram Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:08:36 +0000 http://memorymentor.com/blog/mental-tips-tricks/converting-kilos-to-pounds/#comment-312 great! great!

]]> By: Jer http://memorymentor.com/blog/mental-tips-tricks/converting-kilos-to-pounds/#comment-261 Jer Thu, 01 May 2008 17:34:40 +0000 http://memorymentor.com/blog/mental-tips-tricks/converting-kilos-to-pounds/#comment-261 Related metric conversion trick: Miles to Kilometers. 1) remember that there are more letters in Kilometers, so generally there are more kilometers in a distance than there are miles 2) take miles, and double it 4 times. 3) move the decimal place to reduce it Example: 100 miles double 4 times: 200, 400, 800, 1600. Move decimal place: 160.0 kilometers (actually 160.9) Example: 60 miles double 4 times: 120, 240, 480, 960. move decimal place: 96.0 kilometers (actually 96.56) Converting the other way: Halve it four times Move the decimal place to make it bigger. Example: 130 kilometers half: 65, 32.5, 16.25, 8.125 move the decimal place 81.25 (actually 80.7) Related metric conversion trick:

Miles to Kilometers.
1) remember that there are more letters in Kilometers, so generally there are more kilometers in a distance than there are miles
2) take miles, and double it 4 times.
3) move the decimal place to reduce it

Example: 100 miles
double 4 times: 200, 400, 800, 1600.
Move decimal place: 160.0 kilometers (actually 160.9)

Example: 60 miles
double 4 times: 120, 240, 480, 960.
move decimal place: 96.0 kilometers (actually 96.56)

Converting the other way:
Halve it four times
Move the decimal place to make it bigger.

Example: 130 kilometers
half: 65, 32.5, 16.25, 8.125
move the decimal place 81.25 (actually 80.7)

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