Metric Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Metric units verses customary units

One finds metric units easier to convert because they only contain seven basic quantities. These include length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount of substance, and light intensity. This means that all other units are derived from the basic units. Conversions of metric units are quite easy because the other smaller or larger units of metrics are expressed using prefixes that are powers of ten (Customary & Metric Systems of Measurement, n.d). For example, one gram = 103 kilogram. Therefore, converting 15 kilograms to grams ;
15 kg x 1000 = 15000g
On the other hand, customary units are not easily ...

Introduction

Over the past few months, the Customer Service department is facing a serious challenge in filling up the growing need for Customer Service Representatives (CSR) positions. This situation, if sustained much longer, may negatively impact on the superior quality that the company is providing its customers to support its high-quality products. The problem appears to be multi-faceted, which can only be determined until a thorough review of the job, the work flow, and job requirements (i.e., CSR knowledge, skills, and experience), in relation to current workloads and expectations, has been conducted. To insure an effective and efficient problem determination ...

Personal Carbon Footprint Calculation and Efforts to Reduce Impact on Climate Change

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Carbon Footprint Calculation
Baseline Emissions
The baseline emission for personal carbon footprint is calculated based on the plan to reside in a third world country. Indonesia is selected as an example of the third world country that ratified the Kyoto protocol and signed on July 13 1998 , so there is a strong relevance between this exercise and the country’s policy on emission reduction.
Indonesia is a tropical country with climate conditions that do not require heating facilities, so emission form such facility will be insignificant. The baseline emission of personal carbon footprint calculated using the carbon footprint ...

The transport industry, especially the trucking sector, has experienced and would continue to experience changes given the current economic climate. Economic uncertainty has brought about waves of speculation that have ultimately led to the drastic rise in fuel prices. The trucking industry has felt the direct effects of the ever-changing fuel market much more than any other industry in the United States (EPA, 2014). The rising fuel price has led to key industry players to devise ways of combating the problem. In coming up with ways of cutting the operational costs, the environment should also be put into consideration. ...

The regular U.S. local, in a year, uses 635 pounds of paper, uses energy equivalent to 7.8 metric tons of oil and eats 275 pounds of meat. It was forty-five years ago, when the average American used only 366 pounds of paper, ate 197 pounds of meat, and used a minimum amount of energy equivalent to 5.5 metric tons of oil. The United States declares that there is about one car for each two people in a group. On the other hand, Europeans have about one passenger car for each three people. As also recorded, developing countries possess, on an average, about ...