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 * 1,000 = 50,000 centigrams
What is Rachel's error?
She should have multiplied by 10,000.
She should have divided by 1,000.
She moved the decimal point to the right.
She did not make an error.
hecto-
deka-
unit
deci-
centi-
100
10
1
0.1
0.01