IU won, and, thankfully, no one brought up any more math or chemistry. But Stef couldn't help getting it out of her head.
"10 yards is 9.1 meters," kept running through her head over and over again, and it wasn't even something important to know.
"A meter is 1.1 yards." Now that was something she should know. "And an inch is 2.54 centimeters." Where did that come from? "A meter is 100 centimeters."
"I DON'T CARE!" she actually shouted out loud as she walked back into her house. "The football field is 100 yards, so that would be about 91 meters... 9.1 times 10... move the decimal to the right one space."
"ARRGH! Get out of my head!"
She finally decided that the only way to exorcise the demon of metric conversion was to sit down and write out all the key conversions in her notebook. Curses!
And so she did. She found her notebook and before she went to bed she wrote down.
Meter: 1.1 yards
Kilometer: 1000 meters
Centimeter: 1/100 of a meter
Millimeter: 1/10 of a centimeter
Inch: 2.54 centimeters
Celsius to Fahrenheit: F=9/5C+32
Fahrenheit to Celsius: C=5/9(F-32)
Then she added a couple more that she thought she should memorize:
Kilogram: 2.2 pounds
Mile: 1.6 kilometers
Mile: 1760 yards
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