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REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
MINISTRY OF PEOPLE'S POWER FOR EDUCATION
U.E.C.E "Jean Piaget"
MATURIN: STATE: MONAGAS

ENGLISH REPORT: BRITISH SYSTEM
ENGLISH REPORT: BRITISH SYSTEM

PROFESOR:ALUMNO:
Armando Rodriguez Garcia,Garcia, Rubén A.5TO Año sección “A”

Maturín, October 11 of the 2011

* ENGLISH SYSTEM OR BRITISHSYSTEM
The English system of units or the imperial system is still used widely in the United States and, increasingly lesser extent, in some countries with British tradition .Due to the strongbusiness relationship our country has with the United States, there are still many products made in Mexico in the system specifications. Examples include wood products, screws, lead wires and metalprofiles. Some instruments such as pressure gauges for automobile tires and other types of gauges commonly used in the English system scales.
The English system of units are non-metric unitscurrently used in the United States and in many English-speaking territories (as in the United Kingdom), but there are discrepancies between the systems of the United States and England. This system isderived from the evolution of local units over the centuries, and standardization efforts in England. The units themselves have their origins in ancient Rome. Today, these units are slowly beingreplaced by the International System of Units, but in America the inertia of the old system and the high cost of migration has largely prevented the change.

* ENGLISH EQUIVALENT UNITS.

*LENGTH
Since 1959, the US and the British yard have been defined identically to be 0.9144 meters, to match the international yard. Metric equivalents in this article usually assume this latest...