Question

How do you convert 35.4 g to cg?

Answer 1

`35.4 g xx100 = 3,540 cg`

Explanation:

The prefix 'centi' means a hundred.

100 cents in a dollar, 100 years in a century and so on.
It is the same in the metric system....

There are:
100 cm in 1 metre.
100 cg in 1 gram
100 cl in 1 litre
100 cV in 1 volt
100 cW in 1 Watt
100 cPa in 1 Pascal
100 cJ in 1 Joule

We generally do not use all of these, but they exist.
We would say 150mV rather than 15 cV.

If you are converting to a smaller unit, you multiply by a power(s) of 10 to get a bigger number.

To convert from g to cg, `xx 100`

`35.4 g xx100 = 3540 cg`