Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: Weight Weight… Don’t Tell Me!

Boris Johnson’s mission to rebalance the scales is a great excuse for a pounds-and-ounces puzzle.

September 26, 2021 at 12:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

Can you scale Kominers’s latest Conundrum?
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Boris Johnson recently announced that he’s hoping to revive the imperial measurement system, swapping meters and liters for yards and gallons. Luckily Conundrums is well-versed in weights and measures, so we’ve been able to put together a puzzle to help you practice.

The challenge is simple: We’ve given a series of measurement conversion problems; your goal is to identify the resulting units, indicated by blanks. (Many are imperial units — although not all of them are! A few are rather obscure.4)