Question

Convert three hundred twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit to appropriate metric units showing your work.

Answer 1

there's no metric units for temperature
they're just
Fahrenheit
Celsius
Kelvin

Answer 2

though the standard unit for temperature is Kelvin

Answer 3

It's obvious from the context of the word problem that you want to convert to Celsius.
Use the formula:
C = 5/9 (F-32)............... C is Celsius F is Fahrenheit

Answer 4

there's nothing obvious in the question
like I said, the standard unit for temperature is Kelvin.

Answer 5

Read the picture please.

Answer 6

nincompoop...someone in France is reading a letter from an American. The temperature is in Fahrenheit, but they want to cook it in France. Ovens aren't in Kelvin. Also, both Kelvin AND Celsius are SI Metric units:
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/temps.htm

Answer 7

mhmm................I see @_@

Answer 8

I know that the rest of the world uses Celsius, but when you say metric system of temperature, there's no such a thing

Answer 9

Wrong Nin.

Answer 10

It comes straight from the book.

Answer 11

LOL

Answer 12

In the International System of Units, they picked Centigrade as the metric standard of temperature.

Answer 13

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/common.html

Answer 14

It is one of the most common derived units out there, and considered standard.

Answer 15

my badness...
metric it is

Answer 16

Yah, NIST even talks about it as the standard use in place of Kelvin, though Kelvin is niw the base unit. Since these were all standardized in France, it is kind of obvious why they would use them.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/kelvin.html