42 kilometers in decimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 42 kilometers is equivalent to 420000 decimeters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 42 kilometers to decimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 km = 10000 dm.

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

1 km / 42 km = 10000 dm / x dm

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

x dm = (42 km / 1 km) * 10000 dm → x dm = 420000 dm

Conclusion:

42 km = 420000 dm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 decimeter is equal to 2.38095238095238e-06 times 42 kilometers.

It can also be expressed as: 42 kilometers is equal to 1 / 2.38095238095238e-06 decimeters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: forty-two kilometers is about four hundred and twenty thousand decimeters, or alternatively, a decimeter is about zero times forty-two 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.