Question

Timothy wants to know how far his math class is from the orange tree across the street from the school. His feet are ideal feet (meaning they are 1 foot long. 1 foot is 12 inches). Timothy finds that the orange tree is 159 feet from the door of the math classroom. He wants to know that distance in kilometers (km)

Answer 1

The conversion factor can be used to change values from one unit to another.

What is conversion factor?

The conversion factor can be used to change values from one unit to another. We know that there are various units that could be used for the measurement of a quantity. The conversion factor would enable us to change the unit in which a value is given.

Without the conversion factor, a value in meters can not be expressed in inch or a values expressed in torr be given in bars or millimeter mercury for ease of computation.

This ability to change from one value to another has made the solution of mathematical problems much easier and  helps us to have a better grasp of the computational procedure that could be used in the calculation that we want to do for a particular of given problem.

Now the conversion factor is;

1 foot = 3281 kilometers

Hence;

159 feet = 159 * 3281

= 521679 kilometers

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