500 centimeters in millimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 500 centimeters is equivalent to 5000 millimeters.^[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 500 centimeters to millimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 cm = 10 mm.

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

1 cm / 500 cm = 10 mm / x mm

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

x mm = (500 cm / 1 cm) * 10 mm → x mm = 5000 mm

Conclusion:

500 cm = 5000 mm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 millimeter is equal to 0.0002 times 500 centimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 500 centimeters is equal to 1 / 0.0002 millimeters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five hundred centimeters is about five thousand millimeters, or alternatively, a millimeter is about zero times five hundred centimeters.