Convert to meters: 8750 kilometers? Thanks 😊

2 Answers

#"8,750,000" " m"#

Explanation:

#8750 cancel"km"*(1000 "m")/(1 cancel"km")= "8,750,000" " m"#

Jul 19, 2018

8750000 meters

Explanation:

'kilo' means one thousand.

kilometers to meters
#8750# kilometers
#=8750*"kilo"*#meters
#=8750*1000*#meters
#=8750000# meters

Other examples:
centimeters to meters
#8750# centimeters
#=8750*"centi"*#meters
#=8750*1/100*#meters
#=87.5# meters

You can use #"kilo"/1000=1# or #100*"centi"=1# to go back.

meters to kilometers
#8750# meters
#=8750*"kilo"/1000*#meters
#=8750/1000*#kilometers
#=8.75# kilometers

meters to centimeters
#8750# meters
#=8750*100*"centi"*#meters
#=8750*100*#centimeters
#=875000# centimeters

For any SI unit (base or derived) you can think of:

milli = 1/1000 (one thousandth) ex. meters, grams, seconds, liters
centi = 1/100 (one hundredth) ex. meters, liters
deci = 1/10 (one tenth) ex. meters, bels


deca = 10 (ten) ex. grams
hecto = 100 (hundred) ex. liters, pascals
kilo = 1000 (thousand) ex. meters, grams, pascals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_derived_unit