5 inches in meters
Result
The conversion result is: 5 inches is equivalent to 0.127 meters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 5 inches to meters?
We know (by definition) that: 1 in = 0.0254 m.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of meters.
1 in / 5 in = 0.0254 m / x m
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x m = (5 in / 1 in) * 0.0254 m → x m = 0.127 m
Conclusion:
5 in = 0.127 m
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 7.8740157480315 times 5 inches.
It can also be expressed as: 5 inches is equal to 1 / 7.8740157480315 meters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: five inches is about zero point one three meters, or alternatively, a meter is about seven point eight seven times five inches.
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.