Use the ratio 1 meter = 100 centimeters. A town gets 200 centimeters of snow one winter. How many meters of snow does it get?(1 point)

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Responses

2,000
2,000

2
2

1
1

20,000

Answer 1

To convert centimeters to meters, you can use the ratio 1 meter = 100 centimeters.

To find out how many meters of snow the town gets, you divide the number of centimeters by 100:

\[ 200 \text{ centimeters} \div 100 = 2 \text{ meters} \]

So the town gets 2 meters of snow.