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Algebra Difficulty 3.7 AMC 10/12 Find the answer South Africa

Human hair grows at a rate of about 11 centimetre per month. This is equivalent to about how many millimetres every ten years?

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Solution

C 11 cm per month =10= 10 mm per month =120= 120 mm per year =1200= 1\,200 mm in ten years

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