Question #b787b

1 Answer
Nov 16, 2017

For the first question, the answer is #"0.28 cm"#. This would be #"2.8 mm"#.

Explanation:

For this question, you can use a proportion to figure out your answer. So, you know that

#"28 cm = 100 years"#

#("28 cm"/x) = ("100 yr"/"1 yr")#

Here #x# is the cm grown.

So, to solve this, you can cross multiply which would end up with,

#"28 cm" xx "1 yr" = "100 yr" xx x#

Divide by #"100 yr"# and you will end up with

#"28 cm"/100 = "0.28 cm"#

To convert this to millimeters, you multiply the #0.28# cm by #10#. This is the conversion of centimeters to millimeters. So the answer would be #"2.8 mm"#.

Hope this helped.