What is happening
You arrive at a tailor cutting cloth from a bolt marked in metres.
The order is written as 350 cm and the bolt is marked only in metres. The last cut was made on a guess and came out short.
Metres and centimetresRunning
Length in cm
736cm
Order length
350cm
Length in cm is over by 386 cm
Number line. Cloth cut at 7.36 m. Length in cm 736 cm, Order length 350 cm. Currently length in cm is over by 386 cm.
What has to balance