when someone says I am so many inches high, how do you read it, such as 60 inches high.
2006-09-27 02:07:26 · 5 answers · asked by Cutie 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
If you are measuring in inches, and a person was 60 inches tall, you would say they were 5 foot tall. There are 12 inches to a foot.
Feet & inches are redundant in countries which have changed to metric.
2006-09-27 02:15:02 · answer #1 · answered by cloud43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. Its size can vary from system to system. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot. A corresponding unit of area is the square inch and a corresponding unit of volume is the cubic inch.
The inch is the virtually universal unit of measurement in the United States, and the United Kingdom and is the most common unit of measurement in Canada. In the US and the UK, personal heights are expressed in feet and inches by people of all ages. In Canada, the trend has been shifting towards metres, as shown on a person's driver's license.
2006-09-27 02:09:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are inches? Height is measured in metres and centimetres.
2006-09-27 02:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be appropriate to measure height by feet and inches or centimeters... like I am 5ft 4 in tall.
2006-09-27 02:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by mgeoi19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
standing up straight - measure from the floor to the very top of your head
2006-09-27 02:09:18 · answer #5 · answered by awf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋