Exercise 3 Page 18

To find the length of the following object, let's look closely at where it ends on the ruler.

One end of the butterfly is lined up with the $0$ and the other end of the butterfly is at $1\frac{14}{16}=1\frac{7}{8}.$ Now we need to find the units of measure. Notice that the ruler is in inches. Therefore, this image is $1\frac{7}{8}\text{ in.}$ long.