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∙ 13y agocentimeters
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∙ 13y agoappropriate unit to measure the width of a textbook = ce ntimeters
A tape measure
with a tape measure. the CSA
length times width length times width
METERS!!!The unit of measurement you would use to measure the width of your classroom is meters.
the metric system
It is still customary to measure, in inches, a screen from corner to corner diagonally.
inches
Pencil lead is very narrow. Millimeter can be used to measure it.
After you measure the width of the door, you can use any unit of length you like to describe it. No unit is 'correct' or incorrect, but there's always one that produces the most convenient number ... the number that's easiest to write down, remember, and tell other people about. For the width of a door, I think inches would be a bit more convenient than feet.
You can't change kilos to inches because they measure different things. Kilos measure weight and inches measure small distances/length/width
-- Measure the height.-- Measure the width at the top.-- Measure the width at the bottom.Area = (1/2) x (height) x (width-at-the-top plus width-at-the-bottom)
Centimeters are commonly used to measure small lengths and distances, such as the length of an object, width of a room, or height of a person.
You can measure small lengths in millimeters. Length of a pencil, pen, eraser, length and width of a paper, sheet etc. can be measured in millimeters.
For a rectangle, length X width = area. Measure the length in cm. Measure the width in cm. Multiply the length X the width to get the area in cm2.
The answer depends on which characteristic you wish to measure: its diameter, volume, mass, weight, etc.
A millimetre exists to measure distance. This distance is of a particular size where it wouldn't make sense to measure it in kilometres (too small) such as the tip of a pencil's width.