What Can We Measure?

This image is of a ruler. The side with the large numbers are inches. The side with the smaller numbers are centimeters.

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This image is of a ruler. Let's look at the inch side first. How many smaller marks are there between each inch? How about on the centimeter side? We notice that inches and centimeters are very different measurements of length.

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