Question

A child uses her hand to measure the width of a tabletop. Her hand has a width of 8.3 cm at its widest point, and she finds the tabletop to be 15.5 hands wide.

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

To find the width of the tabletop in cm, we can multiply the number of hands by the width of one hand.

Width of tabletop = 15.5 hands x 8.3 cm/hand

Width of tabletop = 129.45 cm

So, the width of the tabletop is 129.45 cm.