500 decimeters in kilometers

Conversion formula
How to convert 500 decimeters to kilometers?

We know (by definition) that: $1\mathrm{dm}=0.0001\mathrm{km}$

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

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

Conclusion: 500 ⁢ dm = 0.05 ⁢ km

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 20 times 500 decimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 500 decimeters is equal to $\frac{1}{\mathrm{20}}$ kilometers.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five hundred decimeters is about zero kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about zero times five hundred decimeters.