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Measurement, NAP-L4-CA35 SA

Shania breeds mice for her cancer research.

She measures the length of their bodies to the nearest tenth of a centimetre when they are 1 week old.

Shania records one mouse's body length as 6.8 centimetres.

What is the smallest measurement the actual body length of that mouse could be?

     centimetres
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`6.75 text(cm)`

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`text(6.75 cm will be rounded up to 6.8 cm).`

`text(Anything shorter, like 6.74 cm, will be rounded)`

`text(down to 6.7 cm.)`

`:.\ text(The smallest measurement is 6.75 cm.)`

Filed Under: Units of Measurement, Units of Measurement Tagged With: Band 10, smc-3182-90-Measurement Error, smc-671-90-Measurement Error

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