Lily is trying to convert 0.003m^2 into mm^2 . Her workings are shown below. a) Write a sentence to explain the mistake that Lily has made. b) What answer should Lily have given?

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Answer 1

a) Lily made a mistake by not considering that she is dealing with square units. She should have multiplied by

(or

), not by 1000 (or

), because there are

square millimeters in a square meter.b) The correct answer should be

.

Answer 2

## Step 1:First, we need to understand the mistake Lily has made. Lily tried to convert

to

by multiplying by 100 and then by 10. This is incorrect because when converting square meters to square millimeters, we should multiply by

(or

), not by 1000 (or

). This is because there are

square millimeters in a square meter.###

## Step 2:Now, we correct Lily's mistake by multiplying

by

to convert it to

.###

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