miri miller wrote:I am a student in Bakersfield , Ca. and I have A project paper due: the problem is that I'm lost , And I mean LOST!!! Plese help with anything possible I am trying to convert with whole # decimals at this point..like 12dm to millimeters or 248m to kilometers.. Please help im desperate...hahahahah!!
:( :? :shock: :cry: :roll: please!!!
Miri, that's quite easy.
12 dm = 12 decimeters = 12 * 0.1 meters (deci means 0.1)
millimeters = 0.001 meters (milli means 0.001)
So 12 dm = 12 * 0.1 meters = 1200 * 0.001 meters = 1200 millimeters.
And so on. Full list of metric prefixes (milli, deci, etc.) can be found here:
http://www.convert-me.com/en/metric_conversions_en.html