Question

The length of a copper wire is 1.6 centimeters (cm). What is the length of this wire in meters (m)?

Answer 1

the length of this wire in meters= .016

Answer 2

it is 0.016, for one meter is one hundred centimeters, so if you would convert 1.6 cm to M then you would divide it by 100. 

1 M = 100 CM
1.6 M = 160 CM
so 1.6 CM = .016 M

also 1.6 divided by 100 move the . over two spots to the left, and if you have multiplied it two spots to the right.