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Carmine bought 4,000 grams of potting soil.

How many kilograms of potting soil did she buy?
Carmine bought 4,000 grams of potting soil.

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Is question will be using conversion factors within the metric system. By using KHDbDCM, we can see that grams is the base, and we have to go up by 3 spaces where we get K. This means that we will be moving our decimal point 3 places to the left.

Carmine bought 4 kilograms of potting soil.
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User Thomas Fritz
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Carmine bought 4 kilograms of potting soil.
1000 grams = 1 kilogram
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