Week 5 – Math 10

There was one question i found particularly challenging.

the question was convert 8 ft 3 inches to inches and then convert from inches to cm.

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I realized that i had to use the unit conversions that was given to convert from one unit to another.

What I determined was:

1ft = 30.48cm

1in=2.54cm

 

From here, we used these statements to create fractions with either side as the numerator or the denominator.

I have to cancel out the units by using fractions so that at the end we have the unit converted so in this case for the first part, 8ft was converted through a process of cancellation to 96in and i made sure to add on the extra 3in. And then I did the same for converting inches to cm. Through this process, it is easy to determine the equivalent unit conversion.