21 kilograms in pounds
Result
The conversion result is: 21 kilograms is equivalent to 46.2970750588243 pounds.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 21 kilograms to pounds?
We know (by definition) that: 1 kg ≈ 2.2046226 lb.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of pounds.
1 kg / 21 kg ≈ 2.2046226 lb / x lb
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x lb ≈ (21 kg / 1 kg) * 2.2046226 lb → x lb ≈ 46.2970746 lb
Conclusion:
21 kg ≈ 46.2970746 lb

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 pound is equal to 0.0215996366666667 times 21 kilograms.
It can also be expressed as: 21 kilograms is equal to 1 / 0.0215996366666667 pounds.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: twenty-one kilograms is about forty-six point two nine pounds, or alternatively, a pound is about zero point zero two times twenty-one kilograms.
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.