Question

How do you convert 500 centimeters to meters?

Answer 1

I got 5 meters

Explanation:

You know that 1 meter is made up of 100 cm;
now, if you have 500 cm you'll get 5 times 100 cm or 5 meters.

Answer 2

5 meters

Explanation:

1 m = 100 cm

2 m = 200 cm

3 m = 300 cm

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5 m = 500 cm

`500 cancel (cm) xx (1 m) /(100cancel (cm)) = 5 m`

Answer 3

If you ever get confused by conversions use ratio

500 centimetres = 5 metres

Explanation:

Known: 1 metre = 100 centimetres

Write the ratio in fraction form giving:

`("1 metre")/("100 centimetres")`

But we need 500 centimetres so it is correct to write:

`("1 metre")/("100 centimetres") =("unknown metres")/("500")`

Looking at the bottom numbers (denominators) we need to be able to change the 100 into 500

Multiply by 1 but in the form of `1=5/5`

`[1/100xx1] = ("unknown metres")/("500")`

`[1/100xx5/5] = ("unknown metres")/("500")`

`[(color(red)(5))/(color(blue)(500))] = ("unknown metres")/("500")`

`"So "color(blue)(500)" centimetres is " color(red)(5)" metres"`