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Q: What personal referent could be used for square centimetre and why?
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Could you convert 15.7 cm squared to mm?

A square centimetre is a unit of area. A millimetre is a unit of length. The two units are therefore incompatible.


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What is resolution of a centimeter ruler?

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What is 1by 1?

It depends on what 1 represents. For instance, as a measurement of length: 1cm x 1cm = 1 square centimetre. Or it could mean that the children entered the school one by one.


Why do you multiply the two sides of the square to get the area?

Areas are measured in squares.The area of any shape is the number of squares that it covers. The number of squares covered depends upon the size of the squares.A square centimetre is a square with 1 centimetre along each side.If you had a square 6 centimetres along each side, how many of these "square centimetres" would be needed to fill its interior?First, along one edge of the square you could fit 6 of these square centimetres in a row.You could also fit 6 of these rows down the 6 cm square. So in total there would be 6 x 6 = 36 of the little squares:.............................................................----------------------..........|.....|......|.....|......|......|.....|..........|--+--+--+--+--+--|..........|.....|......|.....|......|......|.....|..... In this diagram, each little square is a square with.....|--+--+--+--+--+--|..... 1 cm along each side......|.....|......|.....|......|......|.....|..... The big square is 6 cm along each side, and you can.....|--+--+--+--+--+--|..... see the 36 little squares inside it in 6 rows of 6 little.....|.....|......|.....|......|......|.....|..... squares in each. To count the squares quickly, the.....|--+--+--+--+--+--|..... sides of the square are multiplied together......|.....|......|.....|......|......|.....|..........|--+--+--+--+--+--|..........|.....|......|.....|......|......|.....|..........----------------------.............................................................


Which is the unit to measure the width of a book?

A centimetre, although you could use a millimetre for greater accuracy.


What is used to measure width?

A linear measure. Depending on the scale, it could be micrometre, millimetre, centimetre, metre, kilometre etc.


How many millimeters is 14.2 centimeters?

1 centimetre = 10 millimetres so 14.2 cm = 142 mm. Could not be simpler!


Does 1 meter and 6 mean 1.60 meter?

It could be, but it could also be 1.06 metres. People often talk in terms of metre-and-centimetre combinations, not decimetres or millimetres.


What other names could you give to a square?

A rhombus as it is a lopsided square


A cube is made from centimeter cubes it has a volume of 30 cubic centimeters what could the length width and height be?

The cube cannot be made from centimetre cubes.