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Because they are one hundredcentimetresin a meter.


The centi- prefix means hundredth, which means 1 centimeter is one hundredth of a meter; thus there are one hundred centimeters in a meter.

1 cm = 1 x 1/100 m
→ 100 cm = 100 x 1/100 m
= 1 m

→ 200 cm = 200 x 1/100 m
= 2 m

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