How do you convert 15 kilometers to decimeters?
2 Answers
15 km = 150000 dm
Explanation:
The metric system has prefixes that identify how much, by factors of 10, the measurement is above or below the base measurement.
The most common prefixes are:
- Kilo, meaning 1000
- Hecto, meaning 100
- Deca, meaning 10
- deci, meaning 1/10
- centi, meaning 1/100
- mili, meaning 1/1000
The basic units of the system are liter for volume, gram for weight and meter for distance.
Now for our problem. We have 15 kilo-meters so 15 x 1000 meters or 15000 meters. This is still not in the units we want. Remember that each time you go to a unit below you multiply by 10 (1 meter = 10 decimeters), so our 15000 meters become 150000 decimeters.
Explanation:
The units in the metric system work with powers of
This makes conversions really easy, far more so than the imperial system with its inches, yards and miles.
For distance we have:
or: