5 feet in meters
Result
The conversion result is: 5 feet is equivalent to 1.524 meters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 5 feet to meters?
We know (by definition) that: 1 ft = 0.3048 m.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of meters.
1 ft / 5 ft = 0.3048 m / x m
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x m = (5 ft / 1 ft) * 0.3048 m → x m = 1.524 m
Conclusion:
5 ft = 1.524 m
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 0.656167979002625 times 5 feet.
It can also be expressed as: 5 feet is equal to 1 / 0.656167979002625 meters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: five feet is about one point five two meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero point six six times five feet.
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.