500 centimeters in kilometers

Conversion formula
How to convert 500 centimeters to kilometers?

We know (by definition) that: $1\mathrm{cm}=1e-05\mathrm{km}$

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of kilometers.

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown $x$:

Conclusion: 500 ⁢ cm = 0.005 ⁢ km

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 200 times 500 centimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 500 centimeters is equal to $\frac{1}{\mathrm{200}}$ kilometers.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five hundred centimeters is about zero point zero one kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about two hundred times five hundred centimeters.