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Problem of the Week
Problem B
What’s in a Measure?

Listed below are measurements for some specific items. However, the unit of measure may not be what you are used to. Convert the measurements to a unit that makes more sense to you.

  1. The time between your \(10\)th and \(11\)th birthdays is \(31\,536\,000\) seconds.

  2. The distance between Montreal and Toronto is \(54\,160\,000\) centimetres.

  3. The length of my toothbrush is \(0.00019\) kilometres.

  4. I pour \(0.25\) litres of milk on my cereal in the morning.


Themes: Geometry & Measurement, Number Sense