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5. Arrange knife, hockey stick, tie and key in increasing order of
length.
6. is longer than the pencil but shorter than the
toothbrush.
7. Arrange belt, toothbrush, nail, pencil in decreasing order of
length.
8. If spoon, knife and toothbrush are kept in increasing order of
length then will be at the centre.
Units of Measuring Length
In earlier days length was measured using different parts of human
body.
Hand span Foot span Cubit Pace
These are non-standard units of length.
They vary from person to person.
Nowadays we use standard unit of length which is same all over the
world.
Standard unit of length is metre. [m]
To measure small lengths we use centimetre. [cm]
100 centimetres make one metre.
To measure distance between two places we use kilometre. [km]
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