The easiest way to convert units is to go to Google.comand type your conversion question directly into the search window. Google calculates the answer for you, and you aren't using the search results. Here is a list of examples of what you would type in:
24 cups in gallons
45 square feet in square meters
34 ft^3 in yards^3
3 km/hr in m/s If you leave both fields blank (e.g. "km to mi"), it will show the unit conversion factor. Google also has a calculator feature (Refer to the link in the Related Questions section) --- The problem with using Google, however, is that it is not very enlightening nor quick, and on a test in school, for example, you do not have access to Google. You can use the educational procedure listed below. The below is a very powerful and easy method to convert numbers from one unit to another.
Let us take an easy example.
Say you have 2.7 meters and you want to convert it to centimeters.
You know that 1m = 100 cm
Think about how we can take the equation 1m = 100 cm
and divide both sides by
1m
and get
1= 100 cm/m. Note that we have only "re-arranged" the equation.
You know that you can multiply any number by 1 and not change its value. It is also true that you can multiply any number by 100 cm/m
and not change its value because
100 cm/m equals 1 If we take the number
2.7m and multiply it by
100 cm/m you will have the same distance, just expressed in different units.
Here is the entire process expressed mathematically...
2.7m = 2.7m X 1 = 2.7m X 100 cm/m = 270 m cm/m = 270 cm Notice how the meters cancel each other out and you are left with centimeters.
This always works
Here is a harder example.
Convert the speed 8,100 m/s to the units of km/hr
As discussed above since 1000m = 1 km we will in this case divide both sides of the equation by 1000m and get
1=(1/1000)km/m.
when we multiply by that and cancel out the meters, we get
8,100 m/s = 8.1 km/s.
Note that we could have instead taken the equation 1000m = 1 km and divided both sides by
1km to get 1 =1000m/km and then divided by 1000km/m and the meters would have still canceled out. Here is the math.. 8,100m/s = 8,100m/s / 1000m/km = 8.100 (m/s) / (m/km)= 8.1 km/s
Now to convert the seconds to hours, we first convert the seconds to minutes by taking the equation 1min = 60s and dividing both sides by
1min to get the equation
1 = 60s/min
When we multiply
8.1 km/s by the above, we get 480 km/min
We do the same thing with the equation
1hr = 60 min to get
1 = 60 min/hr and when we multiply, we get
28,800 km/hr which is in the correct units.
Of course one would do all of these steps at once making it a very simple matter. For some reason it is not the law for physic teachers to tell their students about this method. (see related link which goes into this process in more detail)
It doesn't make sense to convert that. You can only convert units of the same kind, e.g., units of length to units of length; units of area to units of area; units of time to units of time, etc.
You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.
You can't convert that. You can convert linear units to linear units, square units to square units, or cubic units to cubic units.
The answer will depend on what units you want to convert to.
You can't. Units of time don't convert to units of distance.
Depends, what you want to convert to what. To convert between different metric units, powers of 10 are used. For example, a kilometer is 1000 meters. To convert from metric units to imperial units, you have to ask specific questions for specific units, for example, "how to convert inches to meters", or "how to convert pounds to kilograms".Depends, what you want to convert to what. To convert between different metric units, powers of 10 are used. For example, a kilometer is 1000 meters. To convert from metric units to imperial units, you have to ask specific questions for specific units, for example, "how to convert inches to meters", or "how to convert pounds to kilograms".Depends, what you want to convert to what. To convert between different metric units, powers of 10 are used. For example, a kilometer is 1000 meters. To convert from metric units to imperial units, you have to ask specific questions for specific units, for example, "how to convert inches to meters", or "how to convert pounds to kilograms".Depends, what you want to convert to what. To convert between different metric units, powers of 10 are used. For example, a kilometer is 1000 meters. To convert from metric units to imperial units, you have to ask specific questions for specific units, for example, "how to convert inches to meters", or "how to convert pounds to kilograms".
It doesn't make sense to convert that. You can only convert units of the same kind, e.g., units of length to units of length; units of area to units of area; units of time to units of time, etc.
You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.You don't convert square units to linear units. The two are utterly incompatible.
You can't convert that. You can convert linear units to linear units, square units to square units, or cubic units to cubic units.
The answer will depend on what units you want to convert to.
it matters what units
You can't. Units of time don't convert to units of distance.
Convert gallon to appropriate metric units.
You can convert units of length to units of length, and units of area to units of area. But it doesn't make sense to convert between units of length and units of area.
Into units of what?
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You can't convert that. You can only convert units that measure the same type of thing - for example, units of length to units of length, units of mass to units of mass, units of time to units of time, etc.