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eelyaK11:

Eva buys a piece of red fabric that is 5.6 meters long and a piece of yellow fabric that is 2.8 meters long. How long are the two pieces of fabric together in millimeters? Use the metric table to help answer the question. Metric Table kilo- hecto- deka- unit deci- centi- milli- 1,000 100 10 1 0.1 0.01 0.001 8.4 millimeters 84 millimeters 8,400 millimeters 84,000 millimeters

ramen:

All you have to do is convert 5.6 meters and 2.8 meters to millimetres and add them both together or add 5.6+2.8 then convert to millimetres. Do you know how to do this?

eelyaK11:

ok kinda of but which 1 of thwm would be meters

eelyaK11:

would it be unit?

jhonyy9:

unit mean meter

eelyaK11:

ooooooooooooo

jhonyy9:

so in this way 1 m = ? mm

eelyaK11:

so a

jhonyy9:

what is this a ? in number pls

eelyaK11:

8.4

jhonyy9:

no from this table 1 m = ? mm

eelyaK11:

8.4 millimteres?

eelyaK11:

Pir8booty:

is it right

jhonyy9:

no this metric table wan be hence correct Metric Table kilo- hecto- deka- unit deci- centi- milli- 1,000 100 10 1 0.1 0.01 0.001

eelyaK11:

uh look at my screenshot

jhonyy9:

yeah i see so given that 5,6 m and 2,8 m together = 8,4 m what you need convert in mm yes ?

eelyaK11:

yres

eelyaK11:

idk or understand wt ur sayin r u saying im wrong?

jhonyy9:

ok so when you see on this table there are unit mean 1 m

Pir8booty:

times it by times 8.4 by 1,000

eelyaK11:

8400

Pir8booty:

yess

jhonyy9:

step by step @Pir8booty

eelyaK11:

so its c c :

Pir8booty:

ohh sorry @jhonyy9 did not mean to hard u know

eelyaK11:

i had no clue wat u were saying @jhonyy9 tbh

jhonyy9:

i wan teach students how can convert not direct answers

Pir8booty:

he was saying that you had 8.4 m and you needed to convert it to millimeters

jhonyy9:

but this table posted is edited wrong

Pir8booty:

wadya mean

jhonyy9:

Metric Table kilo- hecto- deka- unit deci- centi- milli- 1,000 100 10 1 0.1 0.01 0.001 8.4 millimeters 84 millimeters 8,400 millimeters 84,000 millimeters

jhonyy9:

this

Pir8booty:

ohh ya

jhonyy9:

@eelyaK11 it's ok now ?

eelyaK11:

ye

jhonyy9:

questions ?

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