5 meters in feet

Result

The conversion result is: 5 meters is equivalent to 16.4041994750656 feet.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 5 meters to feet?

We know (by definition) that: 1 m ≈ 3.2808399 ft.

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

1 m / 5 m ≈ 3.2808399 ft / x ft

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

x ft ≈ (5 m / 1 m) * 3.2808399 ft → x ft ≈ 16.4041995 ft

Conclusion:

5 m ≈ 16.4041995 ft

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot is equal to 0.06096 times 5 meters.

It can also be expressed as: 5 meters is equal to 1 / 0.06096 feet.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five meters is about sixteen point three nine feet, or alternatively, a foot is about zero point zero six times five 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.