It moves 5 places to the left.
It moves 5 places to the right.
To convert from centigrams (cg) to kilograms (kg), the decimal is move 5 spaces to the left, which is performed mathematically by dividing the number of centigrams by 10,000. For example: 1 cg = 0.00001 kg
right 5 spaces
The decimal point moves five places to the right.
It moves to the right.
When moving from larger values to smaller ones, there will be more of them. That means multiplication which makes the decimal point appear to move to the right.
25 centigrams is .00025 kilograms
642 centigrams is 0.00642 kilograms @100,000 centigrams per kilogram.
There are 245,000 kilograms in 245 centigrams.
2500 centigrams = 0.25 kilograms
25 000 centigrams in 2.5 kilograms
25 kilograms = 2 500 000 centigrams
There are 1000 grams in a kilogram, and 100 centigrams in a gram. So, 450 kilograms * (1000 grams / kilogram) * (100 centigrams / gram) = 45,000,000 centigrams. So, 45 million centigrams in 450 kilograms.