So for example, a 10 kg dumbbell would be 22 lbs. Imperial units such as feet, pints, ounces and miles are used alongside metric units like metres, millilitres and kilometres. In the UK we use ...

Mixing metric and imperial measures can lead to serious problems. Here are a few mixups that have resulted in mishaps. Image: George Downs/The Wall Street Journal ...

What’s going on, Ada? ADA: Kilometres and miles are not the same.In the UK, we use two measurement systems: metric and imperial.Imperial is the older system and metric is the more modern system ...