Question

A honey bee’s length measures 1 cm. Express this measurement in meters. Explain your thinking. Include an equation with an exponent in your explanation.

Answer 1

.01 m

Equation with an exponent 1 x $10^{-2}$ = .01 m

First, it's important to know that there are 100 centimeters in 1 meter. Second, it's important to know that $10^{-2}$ is the same as .01. In order to find out how many meters are in 1 centimeter, one must multiply 1 cm by $10^{-2}$. It's important to use a negative exponent because centimeters are smaller than meters. Since we are going from a small unit of measurement to a bigger unit of measurement a negative exponent must be used.

Further Explanation

Meters

A meter is a unit of metric measurement. Track and Field events use the metric system because it is a universal unit of measurement. Inches and feet are not units used all over the world. The Olympic Games use the metric system so this is the system that is universally adopted throughout the world for many sporting events, including track and field. Sports that are more commonly attributed to the USA and not an Olympic event often uses the US system. An example is football. The field is measured in yards instead of meters.

Centimeters

The prefix cent- means 100. Often it is used to denote a hundredth unit of measurement in the metric system. This is a useful item to know because it can be applied to many different math terms such as centimeters or century (100 years). A penny is one-hundredth of a dollar because it takes 100 pennies to equal one dollar.

Exponents

An exponent is the amount of times a number is multiplied to itself. For example  is the same as 4 x 4 = 16. This is a faster way to write repeated multiplication.

Remember multiplication is a faster way to write repeated addition! Exponents are a faster way to write repeated multiplication.

Answer Details

Subject: Math

Level: Middle School

Topic: Exponents

Keywords

exponents, metric system, meters, centimeters

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Answer 2

Answer:

Honey Bee's length measures 1cm

We wanna convert it into metres

Cm is smaller unit than metre

So, To convert from cm to m

We have to make it divide by a number greater than 1 or multiply by no less than 1

Here, we have to multiply it by

${10}^{ - 2}$

that is, we have to multiply by 0.01

or make it divide by

${10}^{2}$

that is, we have to divide by 100

As honey bees length = 1cm

which is equivalent to 0.01 m