One centimetre is a hundredth of a metre.
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have* A meter contains 100 centimeters; the Latin prefix "centi-" means one hundred or, in this context, it means one-hundredth of a meter.
4.5 m = 450 cm 100 centimeters = 1 meter. The prefix "centi" means "one hundredth," so centimeter literally means one hundredth of a meter. 100 centimeters are in a meter, so 450 centimeters are in 4.5 meters.
Centi = one hundredth So, there are one hundred centimeters in a meter. There are 50 cm in .5 meter.
"Centi" meen 100, so a "centi"meter is one hundredth (1/100) of a meter. Thus to convert centimeters to meters you divide by 100. Therefore its 230 metres
There are 100 centimeters in a meter.