Which one is greater $5000cm.$ or $5$ meters?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-02T08:06:21

$5000$ $cm$ is a lot greater than $5$ meters.

Each meter has $100$ centimeters and therefore $5$ meters are equal to $5xx100=500$ $cm$ .

Hence $5000$ $cm$ is a lot greater than $5$ meters.

Answer 2 · 2018-07-03T15:41:11

$5000$ centimeters.

We first convert them to the same units.

$1$ meter is equal to $100$ centimeters. So, we have:

$5color(red)cancelcolor(black)"m"*(100 \ "cm")/(color(red)cancelcolor(black)"m")=500 \ "cm"$

Now, we clearly see that $5000$ is a much bigger number than $500$ , and so $5000$ centimeters is greater than $5$ meters.

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