If someone asks you, how will you convert 24 cm to inches, what would your answer be? If you are like most people your answer would be to just do it online, on your phone or computer. Maybe you have an app that does that for you. But what if none of the above is available?
Now you may be wondering why would I ever need to convert 24 cm to inches, and when will I ever need it? Well, you might need it more than you think. While most countries use the metric system of measurement, there are still a few who use the imperial system.
The largest of which is the United States of America and if you know about USA, they don’t do anything small. So, if you are from any other part of the world and moving to the US or vice versa, it might be useful to learn measurement conversion.
Now you may ask why 24 cm to inches? Well, this is just an example or case study we will use to explain conversion. But by doing so we will teach you all about conversion. So let us start with a 24cm to inches conversion.
24 cm to inches conversion formula
To do this conversion, all you need to know is basic math and need to follow these steps.
- 1 inch equals 2.54 cm, so we know an inch is bigger than a cm as a unit.
- To convert an inch into cm you need to simply multiply 2.54 with the given value.
- But to convert a cm into an inch you need to divide the given value by 2.54.
- So 24cm in inches will be 24/2.54 and we will get 9.45 inches.
- It can be any value other than 24 and the formula will remain the same.
Conversion into other units of lengths
By now you can convert 24 cm to inches and you know the answer is 9.45 when you have 24cm as inches. But what about you need to convert these values into feet, meters, yards or miles? Do not worry for we will teach you about them all.
Centimeter to meter
Both centimeters (cm) and meters (m) are part of the metric system of measurement for length and are the most commonly used besides the kilometer (km). The other two common units are millimeters (mm) and decimeters (dm).
Besides these, there are other units as well as you go up and down the scale but for now, we will focus on these as they are the most widely used ones and we will see how we go from converting 24 cm to inches to meters and decimeters and so on.
- We start with the kilometer, which has 100,000 centimeters in it, so 24 cm into the kilometer comes out to 24/100,1000 = 0.00024 km.
- Next, we have a meter, which has 100 centimeters in it, so 24 cm into meters is 24/100 = 0.24 m.
- Lastly, we have a millimeter, where the centimeter is the bigger unit with 10 millimeters in 1 centimeter. So, 24 cm will be 24 x 10 = 240 mm.
Centimeters to foot
Feet is another imperial unit of measurement, where 1 ft is equal to 30.248 cm. We know that a foot is bigger than cm so we follow the same principle as we did when we converted 24 cm to inches. We divide 24 by 30.248 cm and we get 0.787 cm.
Centimeters to miles
Miles is one of the biggest units of measurement, even bigger than kilometers, and is primarily used in the US and a few other countries. 1 mile is equal to 1.64 kilometers, 160934 cm, and 63360 inches. So just like 24 cm to inches, 24 cm to miles will be 0.00014 miles following the same principle.
Centimeters to yards
Another imperial unit of measurement, 1 yard is equal to 91.44 cm, and just as we did the conversion for 24 cm as inches, we will do the 24 cm to yards by simply dividing 24 by 91.44 and we get 0.262 yards.
Centimeters to Nautical miles
You might never need to convert centimeters but the nautical mile is such an interesting unit, that we couldn’t stop ourselves from telling you about it. A nautical mile is generally used to measure the speed of a vessel when traveling in the water but its uses are not limited to amphibious vehicles.
One nautical mile is equal to a whopping 185200 cm and as such when we convert 24 cm to nautical mile, we get a tiny value of 0.00012 cm.
Conclusion
After reading all of the above you will get a pretty good idea of how different systems of measurement work, what kind of different units are in them and how exactly can you convert one unit into another. Especially what to do when going from a bigger unit to a smaller one and vice versa.
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