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It depends on the distance between the two points. If it is more than a kilometer apart then you would use kilometer. Unless you wanna do it with centimeter. It's just whatever is easier.

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If you wanted to measure the distance from point A to point B, which unit of the metric system would you use?

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The most widely used system is the metric system

kilometer, hectometer,dedcameter,meter(base unit) decimeter centimeter millimeter and so on.

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