centi means hundred, so 100 centimeters in 1 meter
I remember it like this
km hm dam m dm cm mm
kilometers hectometers decameters meters decimeters centimeters milimeters
If you have 1 meter than you have...
.001km .01hm .1dam 1m 10dm 100cm 1000mm
You want to remember that there are exactly 2.54 centimeters in an inch.
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To answer conversion questions like this go to Google.com and in the search window, type in your question like this..
24 cups in gallons
or this
4000 square feet in acres
or this
45 inches^3 in liters
and it will if you a direct answer.
It is great for this.
In your case type in
1 cm in inches
Note, you can also use the Google search window as a calculator. You might type in
23.5 x 54^2 x sqrt 5 =
If this is a homework question, the below is a very powerful and easy method to convert numbers from one unit to another.
Let us take an easy example.
Say you have 2.7 meters and you want to convert it to centimeters.
You know that 1m = 100 cm
Think about how we can take the equation 1m = 100 cm and divide both side by "1m" and get 1= 100 cm/m. (We have "re-arranged" the equation.)
Now think about how it is that if you multiply 2.7m by the number 1 you simply get 2.7m again.
Now think about how since "100 cm/m" equals 1 because 1= 100 cm/m you can multiply 2.7 m by "100 cm/m" and you will have the same distance. The only difference is that after you cancel out the meters the distance will be expressed in different units.
Here it is expresses mathematically...
2.7m = 2.7m X 1 = 2.7m X 100 cm/m = 270 cm. Notice how the meters cancel each other out and you are left with centimeters.
This always works
Here is a harder example.
Convert the speed 8,100 m/s to the units of km/hr
As discussed above since 1000m = 1 km, we will in this case divide both sides of the equation by "1000m" and get 1=(1/1000)km/m.
when we multiply by that and cancel out the meters, we get 8,100 m/s = 8.1 km/s.
(Note that we could have taken the equation 1000m = 1 km and divided both sides by "1km" to get 1 =1000m/km and then DIVIDED by 1000km/m and the meters would have still canceled out. Here is the math 8,100m/s = 8,100m/s / 1 = 8,100m/s / 1000m/km = 8.1 km/s )
Now to convert the seconds to hours we first convert the seconds to minutes by taking the equation 1min = 60s and dividing both sides by "1min" to get the equation 1 = 60s/min
When we multiply 8.1 km/s by the above we get 480 km/min
We do the same thing with the equation 1hr = 60 min to get 1 = 60 min/hr and when we multiply, we get 28,800 km/hr which is in the correct units.
For some reason it is not the law for physic teachers to tell their students about this method.
Here is website that goes into it in more detail.
http://oakroadsystems.com/math/convert.htm#Intro
Centimeters don't have an average length, they are all exactly the same, at 1/100 of a meter
3476km equals 347600000cm
The unit of speed in that case is " centimeters per minute ".
Centimeters are units of distance/length, not of weight.
The eccentricity of that ellipse is 0.4 .
It is not possible to measure the amount of centimeters in a liter. This is because centimeters are used to measure distance and liters is used to measure liquids.
2.5 meters is 250 centimeters.
Length. Distance.
146000000000 centimeters away. That's in the billions!!!
You can't. Kilograms are weight and centimeters are length/distance
centimeters. 100 cm= 1 meter
1 meter = 100 centimeters 9.11 meters = 911 centimeters
Julian walked a distances of 2 meters Keira walked a distance of 300 centimeters. which distance is longer?
centimeters
It is unit of distance / length.
You can't "change" centimeters to meters. But you can describe a length or a distance in terms of either unit. -- If you know the length in centimeters, divide that number by 100 to find the number of meters in the same distance. -- If you know the length in meters, multiply that number by 100 to find the number of centimeters in the same distance.
Centimeters is to estimate distance and Milliliters is to estimate volume
It is the distance in kilometres multiplied by 100000.