Mariyam, a marine biologist, measures the length of a great white shark at 4.5 m long and its teeth at an average of 50 mm long. She wants to convert both measurements to centimeters. What should her new numbers be? shark length:.45 cm; teeth: 0.50 cm shark length: 45.0 cm; teeth: 50 cm shark length: 450 cm; teeth: 5.0 cm shark length: 4500 cm; teeth: 5.0 cm

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Finn Perkins

Biology

11 September, 07:47

Mariyam, a marine biologist, measures the length of a great white shark at 4.5 m long and its teeth at an average of 50 mm long. She wants to convert both measurements to centimeters. What should her new numbers be? shark length:.45 cm; teeth: 0.50 cm shark length: 45.0 cm; teeth: 50 cm shark length: 450 cm; teeth: 5.0 cm shark length: 4500 cm; teeth: 5.0 cm

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Patrick Hawkins · Answer 1

Metres are exactly 100 cm in length, the easiest way to go from metres to centimetres is to simply add the extra 1 or 2 zeros, so 4.5 metres would be 450 centimetres.

As for the millimetres, 1mm is equal to 0.1cm, once again, just move the decimal forward by one numeral, and you'll have the converted value, making 50mm = 5.0cm.

Your shark would be 450cm long and have teeth with an average length of 5cm.