Metric Prefix Conversion Problem Set 1
How many grams are there in 42 petagrams?
Large and small numbers can be written in scientific notation.
SI prefixes
Large and small numbers can be written in scientific notation.
- For help solving these metric prefix conversion problems, view a demonstration.
- For harder conversion problems try these.
- For practice writing numbers in scientific notation see the
- Back to the Metric Unit Prefix Illustration
SI prefixes
Power of 10 | Prefix | Symbol |
10-18 | atto | a |
10-15 | femto | f |
10-12 | pico | p |
10-9 | nano | n |
10-6 | micro | μ |
10-3 | milli | m |
10-2 | centi | c |
10-1 | deci | d |
100 | (base unit) | |
101 | deka | da |
102 | hecto | h |
103 | kilo | k |
106 | mega | M |
109 | giga | G |
1012 | tera | T |
1015 | peta | P |
1018 | exa | E |