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प्रश्न
Can you draw a road shorter than these? What is the length of that road?
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उत्तर
Yes, I can draw a road shorter than these. A straight road from ant to the grains will be shorter than these roads. You can measure the length of this road.
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Activity 1
- Find some things that look 1 metre long.
- Use your metre-rope to find which of these things are more or less than 1 metre.
| Name of the thing | More than 1 metre | Less than 1 metre |
| Length of table | - | - |
| Width of table | - | - |
| Width of door | - | - |
| Length of door | - | - |
| - | - | |
| - | - | |
| - | - |
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