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13
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This diving board is10 meters
tall.
An Olympic
sized pool is
50 meters long |
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Longer Distances like the height of a mountain can be measured in meters...
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and so can
the length of a bridge
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or a waterfall.
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Smaller
Measurements from a meter |
1
centimeter
(1 cm)
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Remember,
centi
is the prefix meaning
1 one hundredth of the base unit meter.
So, 1 one hundredth of a
meter (0.01 m) is simply written 1 cm
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Smaller Measurements from a centimeter
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1
millimeter
(1 mm)
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Remember, milli
is the prefix meaning
1 one thousandth (0.001).
So 1 one thousandth of the
base unit meter,
being 1 millimeter
is
simply
written 1 mm
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LARGER
MEASUREMENT FROM A meter
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1 kilometer
(1 km)
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Remember, kilo
is the prefix meaning
1000 times as much.
So, one thousand meters (1000 m)
being the length of 1 kilometer,
is simply written 1 km
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kilometer
is pronounced "KILL-oh-meet-ur"
NOT
"kill-AH-mit-ur".
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