Question

You need a shelf for a small space in your house, so you make a measurement with your meter stick and head to the store. Once there, you find that the dimension of the shelves you want is given in cm.If your space measured 0.9 m, and the shelves at the store measure 30 cm, answer the following questions:1) How many meters wide is the shelf you want to buy?

Answer 1

We will have the following:

`0.9m=90cm`

So, the number of shelves you need is 3.

Thus, the shelves you can buy are 0.3 m long each.