Question

**URGENT**

When you go to the doctor’s office you step on a balance, which in the U.S. is typically calibrated in pounds. Is this a correct unit for such a balance? What would happen to the reading on this device if you were to stand on it while on the moon? Is this what the scale should read? How would your answers compare if you were to repeat this situation with a doctor’s balance in Mexico?

Answer 1

1. no

2. it would be different because of gravity.

3. no

4. they would be different because of the unit of measurment used. Mexico and any other country would use the metric system.