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15cwt in kg's?

donut - 4/6/08 at 10:16 AM

I'm no good at maths so whats 15cwt in Kg's?

Thanks

mookaloid - 4/6/08 at 10:24 AM

20 cwt in a ton

1000 kg in a tonne

so 15 cwt is about 750 kg by my reckoning

iank - 4/6/08 at 10:27 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
20 cwt in a ton

1000 kg in a tonne

so 15 cwt is about 750 kg by my reckoning

except a ton and a tonne are different.

1 US cwt is 100 lbs.
15 cwt is therefore 1500 lbs
So 680.388555 kilograms

1 UK cwt is 112 lbs
So 15 UK cwt is 762.035182kg

[Edited on 4/6/08 by iank]

donut - 4/6/08 at 10:30 AM

Lovely, thanx

britishtrident - 4/6/08 at 10:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by iank

quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
20 cwt in a ton

1000 kg in a tonne

so 15 cwt is about 750 kg by my reckoning

except a ton and a tonne are different.

1 cwt is 100 lbs.
15 cwt is therefore 1500 lbs
So 680.388555 kilograms

[Edited on 4/6/08 by iank]

No ! mookaloid is correct !!!!!!

You are confusing "short tons" with Tons.

In the imperial system 1 cwt = 112 pound.
1 ton = 20 cwt
1 ton = 2240 lbs

15cwt = approx 750kg

[Edited on 4/6/08 by britishtrident]

iank - 4/6/08 at 10:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident

quote:
Originally posted by iank

quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
20 cwt in a ton

1000 kg in a tonne

so 15 cwt is about 750 kg by my reckoning

except a ton and a tonne are different.

1 cwt is 100 lbs.
15 cwt is therefore 1500 lbs
So 680.388555 kilograms

[Edited on 4/6/08 by iank]

No ! mookaloid is correct !!!!!!

You are confusing "short tons" with Tons.

In the imperial system 1 cwt = 112 pound.
1 ton = 20 cwt
1 ton = 2240 lbs

15cwt = approx 750kg

[Edited on 4/6/08 by britishtrident]

I've updated with the UK cwt

And I'm not confused as tonnes and (short) tons are different
1 tonne = 1.10231131 short tons

[Edited on 4/6/08 by iank]

mcerd1 - 4/6/08 at 12:24 PM

what they said ^^^

just for info:
Imperial
16 oz = 1 lb
14 lb = 1 stone
8 stone = 1 cwt
20 cwt = 1 Ton

trust the americans to make thing harder - epecially when they call there units 'English'
'Imperial' Ton (UK / long) = 1016 kg
'English' Ton (US / short) = 907kg

[Edited on 4/6/08 by mcerd1]

[Edited on 4/6/08 by mcerd1]

Phil.J - 4/6/08 at 12:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
what they said ^^^

just for info:
Imperial
16 oz = 1 lb
14 lb = 1 stone
8 stone = 1 cwt
10 cwt = 1 Ton

trust the americans to make thing harder - epecially when they call there units 'English'
'Imperial' Ton (UK / long) = 1016 kg
'English' Ton (US / short) = 907kg

[Edited on 4/6/08 by mcerd1]

Er..... I think you will find it's 20cwt = 1 ton!

[Edited on 4/6/08 by Phil.J]

David Jenkins - 4/6/08 at 12:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
what they said ^^^

just for info:
Imperial
16 oz = 1 lb
14 lb = 1 stone
8 stone = 1 cwt
20 cwt = 1 Ton

I just wish the government would pluck up courage, stop faffing around and make the full conversion to metric...

quote:

trust the americans to make thing harder - epecially when they call there units 'English'
'Imperial' Ton (UK / long) = 1016 kg
'English' Ton (US / short) = 907kg

It's even funnier when newsreaders try to convert shipping tons into Kg, e.g. "A ship ran aground today of the coast of Cornwall. The 20,000 ton (2000,000Kg) ship..." Shipping tons are a measure of the ship's capacity to carry cargo, not its actual weight.

Macbeast - 4/6/08 at 01:25 PM

No it's not - shipping tons are the measure of the weight of water the ship displaces (when floating I suppose )

You could be thinking of tonnage.

Wish I liked popcorn more

David Jenkins - 4/6/08 at 01:55 PM

^^^^^
OK - fair point (I won't argue). It's what the BBC get wrong, anyway!

I've moved onto the hot-dogs... (don't like popcorn)

mcerd1 - 4/6/08 at 03:50 PM

opps - sorted ^^^