Merchants usually sell small nuts, washers, and bolts by weight (like jelly beans!) rather than by individually counting the items. Suppose a particular type of washer weighs 0.110g on the average. What would 100 such washers weigh? How many washers would there be in 100. g of washers?

1. 11g

2. 909

Explanation:

To get the Weight of a 109 washers who weigh 0.110g each we have to find the ratio of Weight of one washer to 1 washer and multiply by 100

= 100 washers x 0.110g/1 washer

= 11g

Therefore the mass of 100 washers is 11 grams

2.

Then the number of washers =

100g x 1washer/0.110g

= 909

Therefore number of washers = 909

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).

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