How many centimeters in 0.13 kilometers?

Answer 1

To start with, let's convert these kilometers into meters. Then we'll turn the meters into centimeters.

Kilo- is a prefix in the metric system meaning one thousand. This means that there are one thousand meters in every kilometer. In order to turn the kilometer measurement you gave above into meters, we therefore need to multiply it by one thousand.

0.13 * 1000 = 130 m

Centi- is the metric prefix meaning one hundredth. This means that there are 0.01 meters in every centimeter or, in a way that makes more sense, 100 centimeters in every meter. In order to turn these meters into centimeters, we therefore need to multiply the number we found above by 100.

130 * 100 = 13,000 cm