Practice question · Estimate
A painting 90 centimetres tall is hung with its centre 150 centimetres above the floor. How high above the floor is its bottom edge, in centimetres?
Estimate on a scale from 0 cm (0) to 250 cm (250).
Hints
- Half the height of the picture sits below the centre.
- 150 minus 45.
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105 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
105 centimetres, with the top edge at 195. Working from the centre rather than from the top or the bottom is what allows works of different heights to hang together as a sequence, and it is the reason a mixed wall hung to a common top edge always looks like a shelf.
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