48 kilometers in centimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 48 kilometers is equivalent to 4800000 centimeters.[1]


Conversion formula
How to convert 48 kilometers to centimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 km = 100000 cm.

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

1 km / 48 km = 100000 cm / x cm

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

x cm = (48 km / 1 km) * 100000 cm x cm = 4800000 cm

Conclusion:

48 km = 4800000 cm


Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 centimeter is equal to 2.08333333333333e-07 times 48 kilometers.

It can also be expressed as: 48 kilometers is equal to 1 / 2.08333333333333e-07 centimeters.


Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: forty-eight kilometers is about four million, eight hundred thousand centimeters, or alternatively, a centimeter is about zero times forty-eight kilometers.



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.