An average pencil when new would be around 15 centimetres long.
The answer depends on what aspect of the pencil you wish to measure: its length, diameter, mass or something else.
metres
centimetres
Cetimeter
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the basic unit of length in the metric system is meters . It is represented by m . 1 m=100 cm =1000 mm.
Centimetres.
No, It's the metric unit for length
The basic metric unit for length is the metre. Rivers would be measure in kilometres (1,000s of metres)
centimeter
Any metric unit would do. But it might be easier to pick something smaller than the length of the pencil, like a centimeter, or a millimeter.
Centimetre
A centimetre, unless you want to be very precise.
It's gonna be inches/centimeters.
You could use either centimeters or millimeters, but probably centimeters.
The width of a pencil would be the metric unit of centimeters
A milliNewton.
What is the metric unit of a orange? What is the metric unit of a pencil? What iw the customary unit amount of water a bathtub will hold?
The metric unit of length is the 'meter'.
centimeters is the best for measuring the length of a pencil. meters could be used but not as convenient. microns (1 millionth of a meter) is definitely too small.
centimeters