4.4 Converting cubic centimetres into cubic metres

If you imagine a box which is one cubic metre then 100 cubic centimetres would line up along its edge.

You could fit 100 rows of these 100 cubic centimetres in one layer.

There would be 100 layers of cubic centimetres in the cubic metre.

That’s 100 × 100 × 100 = 1 000 000 cubic centimetres in one cubic metre (Figure 15).

Figure 15 A cubic metre

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A picture of a cube represents one cubic metre. In the bottom left hand corner are some pictures of small cubes which each represent one cubic centimetre. Across the top, down the side and along the width of the big cube are drawn arrows which each have one hundred written next to them.

Figure 15 A cubic metre