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A decimetre is one tenth of a metre, or 10 centimetres. So unless it weighs about three pounds your paperclip is more likely to be 3 centimetres than 3 decimetres (30 centimetres).

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Q: Is the length of a paper clip measured in 3 centimeters or 3 decimeters?
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What is the length of a paper clip in decimeters?

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How many centimeters long is a paper clip?

a paper clip is 3 centimeters


Which unit should you use to measure length of a paper clip?

inches or centimeters


What SI unit is used to measure the length of a small paper clip?

Use centimeters or millimeters.


Do you measure a paper clip by centimeters?

Yes you will have a more detailed answer or length


How many dimension a paper have?

A sheet of paper will typically have three dimensions. There is the length, the width and the thickness of the paper which is measured in GSM. Paper comes in many sizes but A4 is probably the most popular.


What would you measure in millimetres?

You can measure small lengths in millimeters. Length of a pencil, pen, eraser, length and width of a paper, sheet etc. can be measured in millimeters.


HOW MANY CENTIMETERS LONG IS A PAPER?

a paper clip is 3 centimeters


What would you use to measure paper?

Paper is measured in several different ways. Size is usually simply measured in inches or centimeters. 'Weight' is used to measure the thickness, as in 10 pound or 20 pound. The most common quantity is a ream, a package of 500 pages.


What is 15.9 centimeters?

15.9 cm is a measure of length equivalent to 0.159 metres - a bit more than half the length of an A4 sheet of paper.


What tool or tools is used to measure a length of a sheet of paper?

A standard sheet of 'everyday' paper is likely to be measured in either millimetres or centimetres. Larger, commercial-sized sheets of paper may, however, be measured in metres.


How much is a pad of paper in cubic centimeters?

That's going to depend on the length, width, and thickness of a single sheet, and on the number of sheets in the pad.