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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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