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Question
Have you heard about a 1500 m or 3000 m race? (You remember that 1000 metres make 1 kilometre and 500 metres make half a kilometre.)
So you can say -
In a 1500 metres race people run ______ km.
Options
1 km
1 and half km
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Solution
In a 1500 metres race people run 1 and half km.
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Here are the Indian Records and World Records for some jumps.
| Sports | World Record | Indian Record |
| High Jump (Men) | Javier S. (2m 45 cm) | Chandra Pal (2m 17 cm) |
| Long Jump (Men) | Mike P. (8m 95 cm) | Amrit Pal (8m 8 cm) |
| High Jump (Women) | Stefka K. (2m 9 cm) | Bobby A. (1m 91 cm) |
| Long Jump (Women) | Galina C. (7m 52 cm) | Anju G. (6m 83 cm) |
Find out from the table -
How many centimeters more should Chandra Pal jump to equal the Men's World Record for the high jump?
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Look for things that are between 10 and 20 centimetres long.
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 | - | - |
| - | - | |
| - | - | |
| - | - |
Which of these will be in centimetres and which will be in metres?
Width of computer screen
Which of these will be in centimetres and which will be in metres?
Length of a banana
