Question

How do you convert 5 radians to degree?

Answer 1

`~~286`

Explanation:

To convert radians to degrees, simply multiply it by `180/pi` to get your answer.

Why? Because `1pi` is `180` degrees, and `2pi` is `360` degrees. To convert one unit to another, I would want to cancel out the units. Just like how i want to convert 1 minute to seconds, I would do `cancel(1m)*60/cancel(1m)` leaving me with `60` seconds.

Example:
If you have `pi` and you wanted to convert that to degrees, you would want to cancel out the `pi` by multiplying it by `180/pi`.

so `cancel(pi)*180/cancel(pi)` is 180.

On the other hand, if you want to convert degrees to radians, multiply your degrees by `pi/180` so the degrees cancel out.

Example:
If I wanted to convert 150 degrees to radians:

`150*pi/180 =(5pi)/6~~2.61`