Question

Henrietta has a box of fruit with a mass of 88 dekagrams. What is the weight of the box of fruit in kilograms? Use themetric table to help answer the question.kilo-1,000hecto-100deka-10Metric Tableunit1deci-0.1centi-0.01milli-0.0010.88 kilograms8.8 kilograms880 kilograms8.800 kilograms

Answer 1

We know that the mass is 88 dekagrams.

According to the table, 1 dekagram represents 0.01 kilograms. So, we use the following proportion to transform.

$\frac{88}{x}=\frac{1}{0.01}$

Then, we solve for x.

$x=88\cdot0.01=0.88$

Hence, 88 dekagrams are equivalent to 0.88 kilograms.