480 decimeters in kilometers
Result
The conversion result is: 480 decimeters is equivalent to 0.048 kilometers.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 480 decimeters to kilometers?
We know (by definition) that: 1 dm = 0.0001 km.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of kilometers.
1 dm / 480 dm = 0.0001 km / x km
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x km = (480 dm / 1 dm) * 0.0001 km → x km = 0.048 km
Conclusion:
480 dm = 0.048 km

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 20.8333333333333 times 480 decimeters.
It can also be expressed as: 480 decimeters is equal to 1 / 20.8333333333333 kilometers.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: four hundred and eighty decimeters is about zero point zero five kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about twenty point eight two times four hundred and eighty decimeters.
Footnotes
[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).
Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.