5 meters in decimeters

Conversion

5 meters is equivalent to 50 decimeters.^[1]

We know (by definition) that: $1 m = 10 dm$

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

\frac{1 m}{5 m} = \frac{10 dm}{x dm}

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

x dm = \frac{5 m}{1 m} * 10 dm \to x dm = 50 dm

Conclusion: $5 m = 50 dm$

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 decimeter is equal to 0.02 times 5 meters.

It can also be expressed as: 5 meters is equal to $\frac{1}{0.02}$ decimeters.

An approximate numerical result would be: five meters is about zero decimeters, or alternatively, a decimeter is about zero times five meters.

[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.