What is the conversion factor between km/hr and m/s?

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What is the conversion factor between km/hr and m/s?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-19T04:14:22

To convert $\frac{k m .}{h r .}$ $(km.)/(hr.)$ to $\frac{m}{sec}$ $m/(sec)$ , one needs to multiply by $\frac{5}{18}$ $5/18$ .

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$1$ $1$ km/hr means $1000$ $1000$ meters in $3600$ $3600$ seconds or $\frac{1000}{3600} = \frac{5}{18}$ $1000/3600=5/18$ $\frac{m}{sec}$ $m/sec$ .

Hence, if one has to convert $\frac{k m .}{h r .}$ $(km.)/(hr.)$ to $\frac{m}{sec}$ $m/(sec)$ , one needs to multiply by $\frac{5}{18}$ $5/18$ .

For converting $\frac{m}{sec}$ $m/(sec)$ to $\frac{k m .}{h r .}$ $(km.)/(hr.)$ one needs to divide by $\frac{5}{18}$ $5/18$ i.e. multiply by $\frac{18}{5}$ $18/5$ .

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