Converting Measurements to Solve Problems Rachel has a bag of fruit that has a mass of 50
hectograms. Rachel converts this mass to centigrams.
Her work is shown below.
50 hg x 1,000 = 50,000 centigrams
What is Rachel's error?
O She should have multiplied by 10,000
O She should have divided by 1,000
O She moved the decimal point to the right
O She did not make an error.
hecto-
deka-
unit
deci-
centi-
100
10
1
0.1
0.01
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