Assignment:
Q1. Two students in your class are having an argument about the American money system. One claims it is an example of the metric system and the other claims it is not.
- How do you help settle the argument?
Q2. In 1980 I was a middle-school math teacher. Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act which stated that the US of A would be metric by 1984. Schools were notified to adjust. Dollars were spent on teacher education, new text books, and materials. 1984 came and went. Why do you think the metric system was not adopted as congress proposed?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.