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‘Meen’ means a fish, and ‘Meenakshi’ is a girl whose eyes look like a fish. Can you think of someone who has such eyes? Draw a face with ‘fish eyes’
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NCERT · Class 5 · Maths
Chapter 1: The Fish Tale
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Q2Written answer
How long is the biggest fish you can imagine?
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A whale shark was as long as 18 m. So, I can imagine that a fish is about 18 metres long.
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How many times longer is your big fish than the smallest fish?
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Fishes can have very different sizes. The smallest fish is about 1 cm long, and the biggest fish is about 18 m long.
So, 1 m = 100 cm
Then, 18 m = 18 × 100 = 1800 cm.
∴ Big fish is 1800 times longer than the smallest fish.