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Does Anyone Have A Suggestion On How To Learn Conversions?

I am learning metric to household and such for nursing school. I’m having trouble remembering eqivilents for gtt/drams/oz/ml/tsp/T and doing to conversions.

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3 Answers to “Does Anyone Have A Suggestion On How To Learn Conversions?”

  1. September 10, 2009

    Buy a Nokia phone! Lazy way to do it!
  2. September 10, 2009

    …yeah, sony and TexasInstruments have a bunch of little hand held calculators that will do it all for you… fast too !!!
  3. September 10, 2009

    use a conversion train so that everything is equal
    1tsp = 1/3tbs = 5ml (4ml=1dr) = 5mg = 1/6oz = gr1/12 = 60gtt