We are converting 12 meters into centimeters.
A meter is a larger unit of messurment then centimeter. In fact, a meter is made up of many centimeters
How many centimeters are in a meter?
We can look at the word composition of the word centimeter to figure this out:
centimeter
centi = 100
There are 100 centimeters in 1 meter.
In this problem, we have 12 meters. That is twelve 100 cm or:
12 × 100 = 1,200
12 meters is the same as 1,200 centimeters
