420 meters in centimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 420 meters is equivalent to 42000 centimeters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 420 meters to centimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 m = 100 cm.

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

1 m / 420 m = 100 cm / x cm

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

x cm = (420 m / 1 m) * 100 cm → x cm = 42000 cm

Conclusion:

420 m = 42000 cm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 centimeter is equal to 2.38095238095238e-05 times 420 meters.

It can also be expressed as: 420 meters is equal to 1 / 2.38095238095238e-05 centimeters.

Approximation

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

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.