Example:
100 cm = 1 m
1 cm = 0.01 m
You have to change the decimal by two places depending on whether you are
going from cm to m, which would be two places to left, or m to cm, which would be two places to the right.
1 meter = 100 cm 1 cm = .01 meters
40 cm is 40% of 1 meter. Since 1 meter is equal to 100 centimeters, 40 cm represents a fraction of the whole meter. To express it as a decimal, 40 cm is 0.4 meters.
1.43 m
It is: 20/100 =0.2 metre
Answering "How many decimal places to the right do you move to change kilometer square to meter square?"
1 meter = 100 cm 1 cm = .01 meters
Move the decimal place on the meter number 2 spaces to the right, and that is the number of centimeters.
1.43 m
To write 3 cm as a decimal, you need to convert centimeters to meters first. There are 100 centimeters in 1 meter, so 3 cm is equal to 0.03 meters. To express this as a decimal, you simply write it as 0.03.
Answering "How many decimal places to the right do you move to change kilometer square to meter square?"
1 metre is 100 centimetres.
cm square x 0.0001 = meters square
There 100 centimeters in a meter. So if you put the four in the hundreds slots you could say 4 cm = .04m.
90.2 cm = 902 mm 1 cm = 1/100 meter 1 mm = 1/1000 meter (it is 1/10 smaller, so move the decimal one place to the right)
A centimeter is a one hundredth of a meter. To easily convert centimeters to meters simply move the decimal to the left two times.
1 meter = 10 decimeters 1 meter = 100 cm 1 meter = 1000 mm i
1 meter is 100 cm