Question

Unit of measurement of supply of bare electric wire in FPS is _________

(a) per quintal

(b) per cu cm

(c) per cwt

(d) per m

This question was addressed to me in my homework.

Query is from Sizes and Dimensions of Various Works in MKS and FPS topic in chapter Nomography, Computer Aided Drafting & Procedure of Estimating of Civil Engineering Drawing

Answer 1

Right option is (c) per cwt

To explain I would say: The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is an English, imperial, and US customary unit of weight or mass of various values. Its present value continues to differ between the American and imperial systems. The two values are distinguished in American English as the “short” and “long” hundredweight and British English as the “cental” and the “hundredweight”.

• The short hundredweight or cental of 100 lb (45.359237 kg) is used in the US and Canada.

• The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone (112 lb or 50.802345 kg) sees informal use in the imperial system but according to Schedule 1, Part VI of the Weights and Measures Act 1998, is no longer to be used for trade after the Act came into force.