There are many different ways to write 5m in metric units: .005 km .05 hm .5 dam 50 dm 500 cm 5000 mm
Depends how long the ruler is obviously. But if you are talking about a meter stick (very close in size to a yard-stick) then it is 100 cm.
milimeter
There are 10 dm in a meter.
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dm is a metric units of measure the world noway days use! dm = decimeters
6,000.0 nm is egual to dm
dm is decimetre and is a tenth of a metre.
1dm=0.1m
1m = 10 dm 4m = 40 dm Killer (kilo) Hogs (hecto) Drive (deca) (metric unit) Down (deci) Curvy (centi) Mountains (milli)
The metric unit dm is decimeter (0.1 meter), so 6 dm = 0.6 m A dekameter (dam) is 10 meters. See related link for a list of metric prefixes.
dm means decimeter - 1/10 of a meter. It is not a very commonly used unit; usually people use meters, centimeters, or millimeters.
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US customary: inches (in.) SI (metric): decimeters (dm) if allowed, otherwise centimeters (cm) I just took out my stapler and it measured about 6.5 in. or about 17 cm or 1.7 dm