5 feet in meters

Conversion

5 feet is equivalent to 1.524 meters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 5 feet to meters?

We know (by definition) that: 1⁢ft = 0.3048⁢m

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

1 ⁢ ft 5 ⁢ ft = 0.3048 ⁢ m x ⁢ m

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

x ⁢ m = 5 ⁢ ft 1 ⁢ ft * 0.3048 ⁢ m → x ⁢ m = 1.524 ⁢ m

Conclusion: 5 ⁢ ft = 1.524 ⁢ m

5 feet is equivalent to 1.524 meters

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 0.656167979002625 times 5 feet.

It can also be expressed as: 5 feet is equal to 1 0.656167979002625 meters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five feet is about one point five two meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero point six six times five feet.

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.

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