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(b) Use the relationship between grams and kilograms.

1000 g = 1 kg

6 × = 1000 g 6 × 1 kg
= 6 kg
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Therefore, 6,000 g = 6 kg.

Exercise 6

1. Convert the following measurements:
(a) 89 kilograms into grams
(b) 58,000 grams into hectograms
(c) 6,500 kilograms into tonnes
(d) 4 tonnes into kilograms

2. A farmer harvested maize weighing 5,070,000 grams.
What is this mass in kilograms?

3. A vehicle has a mass of 15 tonnes. Convert this mass
into hectograms.

4. A car carries 1,200 kilograms of beans and maize which
weighs 5 tonnes, find the difference between the mass of
beans and that of maize in kilograms and grams.

5. Mwanaisha is going to prepare three different sorts of
biscuit. The following are the recipes.

Chocolate biscuits Oat biscuits Nut biscuits

sugar 120 g sugar 140 g sugar 110 g
butter 60 g butter 170 g butter 160 g

wheat flour 100 g oats flour 80 g wheat flour 230 g

cocoa powder 20 g powdered milk 30 g nuts powder 60 g

(a) What is the total mass of the ingredients for each recipe.
(b) How much sugar, butter, nuts and flour ingredients are
needed to make all of three types of biscuits.

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