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Based on your knowledge of words such as century, centimeter, and centigrade, you can tell that the Latin root cent- means

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The Latin root 'cent' means 100.
You know this because of the following:
- 'century' means 100 years.
- There are 100 centimeters in a meter.
- Centigrade is another term for Celsius, which is based off of 100 unit intervals.
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