How do you convert linear meters to square meters ?

Answer 1

You can't - it's measuring one dimension versus 2 dimensions

Answer 2

You can't. A meter measures length. A square meter measures area. If you have 30 meters of something and want to know how many square meters that is, you are missing a piece of data - the other linear dimension. If that is 3 meters, then the area is

(3 meters) x (30 meters) = 900 square meters

since a meter times a meter is a square meter.

Answer 3

Think of a meter being a set of points one meter in length, i.e. {(x,y):y=0 and 0
Think of a square meter M as {(x,y):0
Call L_n {(x,y):y=n and 0
Depending on what space we're working in, we could say that L_n (for any n) has a two dimensional measure of 0 (since an open interval in R is an open set in R, but it is not an open set in R^2), while M has measure 1.

Answer 4

You can't. Linear meter measures length while square meter measures area. Good old apples & oranges debate.

Answer 5

If a room is 4m by 3m, then the area is 4*3= 12 square meters.

Answer 6

Bend the linear metre at 90 degrees at every 250mm interval and you will get a square that is bounded by what was a linear metre ;o)

Answer 7

Linear metres cannot be converted into square metres as the former measures length and the latter measures area.

Answer 8

you multiple the linear dimensions by each other in square or rectangular spaces to get meters squared.

Answer 9

a room could be said to be 5 metres long (5^1)

the same room (which is also 5 Metres wide) could be said to be 25 metres square.(25^2)

the same room ( which is 2 Metres High) could be said to be 50 cubic metres (50^3)

Linear metres is length, square metres is cross sectional area (or 2 dimensional) cubic metres is volume

Answer 10

Walk in a straight line until you feel like a square.

Answer 11

Multiple two linears to make the two dimensional one.