Question

Molly measured the distance her paper airplane flew.The Paper Airplane traveled 5 meters.How many centimeters did the paper airplane travel?

Answer 1

One meter is equal to 100 centimeters so therefore 5 meters is equal 500 centimeters

Answer 2

Solution:

we are given that

Molly measured the distance her paper airplane flew.The Paper Airplane traveled 5 meters.

we have been asked to find

How many centimeters did the paper airplane travel?

So here its just ask to convert the unit.

As we know that $1m=100cm$

So we can write

$5*1m=5*100cm$

$5m=500cm$

Hence Molly airplane traveled for 500cm.