4.2 Converting square metres into square centimetres

If you imagine a tile which is one square metre, then 100 square centimetre tiles would line up along its edge.

You could fit 100 rows of these hundred square centimetre tiles inside the metre square.

That’s 100 × 100 = 10 000 square centimetres in one square metre (Figure 13).

Figure 13 A square metre

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A square represents one square metre. In the top left hand corner are some small squares which each represent one square centimetre. Across the top of the big square and along its right hand side are arrows which each have one hundred written next to them.

Figure 13 A square metre