This topic focuses on practicing conversion between different metric units of length with decimal values, primarily from larger units to base units. Skills practiced include understanding and applying the metric scale to convert measurements like meters to decimeters, kilometers, millimeters, and hectometers. Each problem presents a specific scenario requiring the conversion of a numerical value given in one metric unit to another, highlighting correct place value and unit comprehension in a metric context.
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Convert this value to meters |
34 hm |
34,000 m |
340,000 m |
340 m |
3.4 m |
3,400,000 m |
3,400 m |
Convert this value to hectometers |
8,400 m |
84,000 hm |
84 hm |
8,400 hm |
0.84 hm |
0.084 hm |
840 hm |
Convert this value to meters |
69 km |
6,900,000 m |
690,000 m |
69,000 m |
6,900 m |
690 m |
69 m |
Convert this value to decimeters |
7.8 m |
8 dm |
7,800 dm |
0.78 dm |
78 dm |
78,000 dm |
780 dm |
Convert this value to decameters |
420 m |
0.42 dam |
0.042 dam |
4,200 dam |
42,000 dam |
42 dam |
420 dam |
Convert this value to meters |
79 dam |
7.9 m |
790 m |
7,900 m |
79 m |
790,000 m |
0.79 m |
Convert this value to meters |
39 dm |
3,900 m |
0.39 m |
3.9 m |
0.0039 m |
390 m |
0.039 m |