This lesson focuses on converting between units of measurement including feet to yards, inches to feet, kilometers to meters, and pounds and ounces. It provides 4 example problems: converting a room's dimensions from feet to yards, converting a person's height from feet and inches to inches, converting distance from kilometers to meters, and converting weight at birth from pounds and ounces to ounces.

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Lesson 6:
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Examples (Lesson 6):
A) A room is 15 feet long and 12 feet wide. What are the
length and width of the room in yards?
B) Natalie is 6 ft 2 in tall. How many inches tall is she?
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C) Seven kilometers is how many meters?
D) Michelle weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. How
many ounces did she weigh?
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