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For example, suppose we know that the length of a table is 1.5 meters, but we want to know how many centimeters this corresponds to. Based on Table 1, we know that the centi prefix means 0.01. Therefore, a centimeter (cm) equals 0.01 (one hundredth) of a meter (m) or there are 100cm in 1m. To calculate the number of cm in 1.5m, we can either: ................
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