which SI unit would you use to easure the following quantities?
a. the amount of water you drink in one day
b. the distance from New York to San Francisco
c. the mass of an apple

Question

which SI unit would you use to easure the following quantities?
a. the amount of water you drink in one day
b. the distance from New York to San Francisco
c. the mass of an apple

frostbite · Answer

Do you have a good guess what it might be? :)

anonymous · Answer

no im comply lost @Frostbite

frostbite · Answer

Okay, I'm gonna guide you to the answer with each one, using some hints or rephrases.
a. The keyword is volume. The answer can be found if you remember that volume is for a box = wide * length * hight.
b. This is the same for a. except we only use length
c. This is the measure we usually get out from weights.

frostbite · Answer

So I guess you came to:
a) cubic meters $m^{3}$
b) meters $m$
c) kilogram $kg$
See attachments if more units. Best if you get to practice it a bit.

anonymous · Answer

a. volume....Liters and mL are the most common in general chemistry classes
b. meters
c. grams, miligrams, kilograms (most commonly used in general chemistry college classes) (:

frostbite · Answer

@Sjiro001 Better turning to the basic SI units. The attachment is from BIPM. http://www.bipm.org/en/si/

frostbite · Answer

Litre for example is a non-SI unit.