Question

Suppose your friend is trying to answer the following question:"How many centimeters are in 4.7 meters?"Your friend knows there are 100 cm in 1 m, exactly. Yet, when they solve the problem, they got an incorrect answer of "0.047 cm." Explain what they may have done wrong and how you could help them fix their mistake.

Answer 1

we know that

1 m=100 cm

so

to convert 4.7 meters to cm

Multiply 4.7 by 100

4.7*100=470 cm

Your friend instead of multiplying 4.7 by 100, divide 4.7 by 100