500 decimeters in meters

Result

The conversion result is: 500 decimeters is equivalent to 50 meters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 500 decimeters to meters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 dm = 0.1 m.

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

1 dm / 500 dm = 0.1 m / x m

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

x m = (500 dm / 1 dm) * 0.1 m → x m = 50.0 m

Conclusion:

500 dm = 50.0 m

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 0.02 times 500 decimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 500 decimeters is equal to 1 / 0.02 meters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five hundred decimeters is about zero meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero times five hundred 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.