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Question from Génesis, a student:

How we convert cm to mm?

Hi Génesis,

If you look at a list of commonly used metric system units, symbols, and prefixes you will see that 10 mm - 1 cm. Thus if you have a length of sat 17 cm then this length is 170 mm.

Penny

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