501 decimeters in kilometers
Result
The conversion result is: 501 decimeters is equivalent to 0.0501 kilometers.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 501 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 / 501 dm = 0.0001 km / x km
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x km = (501 dm / 1 dm) * 0.0001 km → x km = 0.050100000000000006 km
Conclusion:
501 dm = 0.050100000000000006 km

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 19.9600798403194 times 501 decimeters.
It can also be expressed as: 501 decimeters is equal to 1 / 19.9600798403194 kilometers.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: five hundred and one decimeters is about zero point zero five kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about nineteen point nine six times five hundred and one 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.