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Question
Tanu is making a stage with matchboxes.
She first puts 14 matchboxes like this in the first layer.

She makes 4 such layers and her stage looks like this.
- If all these cubes are arranged in a line, how long will that line be? _________ cm.
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Solution
Now, let’s assume the length of a matchbox is 4.5 cm.
All the matchboxes are arranged in a line.
Then the total length of the line made by all 56 matchboxes
= 4.5 cm × 56
= 252 cm
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