Fiona has a lovely flower bed in her yard. She wants to add a fence along one side of the flower bed. The fence material is sold in meters. Fiona knows that her flower bed is 200 centimeters in length. How much fencing material does Fiona need in meters? Fiona needs meters of fencing material for her flower bed.

Respuesta :

2meters. 1 meter is 100 cm.

Answer:

Fiona needs 2 meters of fencing material for her flower bed.

Explanation:

The problem states that Fiona needs to add fence along one side of her flower bed. If the length of the side is 200 centimeters, you have to multiply this value for the ralationship between meters and centimeters (meters/centimeters)

meters/centimeters = 1 meter/ 100 centimeters

⇒ 200 centimeters x (1 meter/100 centimeters) = 2 meters.

Summarizing, Fiona needs 2 meters of fence material.