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.
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
Exactly 200. The decimal system is based on base 10! dm means decimeter (tenth of a meter) cm means centimeter (hundredth of a meter)
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
It is: 45 cm = 0.45 meters or 9/20 meters
There 100 centimeters in a meter. So if you put the four in the hundreds slots you could say 4 cm = .04m.