500 kilometers in decimeters

Conversion formula
How to convert 500 kilometers to decimeters?

We know (by definition) that: $1\mathrm{km}=10000\mathrm{dm}$

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

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

Conclusion: 500 ⁢ km = 5000000 ⁢ dm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 decimeter is equal to 2e-07 times 500 kilometers.

It can also be expressed as: 500 kilometers is equal to $\frac{1}{\mathrm{2e-07}}$ decimeters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five hundred kilometers is about five million decimeters, or alternatively, a decimeter is about zero times five hundred kilometers.