2007-02-20 11:43:13 · 2 answers · asked by im not telling you my name so... 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
Cartiphilus must not be from the United States. The U. S. does NOT use the metric system much. That will be changing in the future from what I hear. Don't feel bad for forgeting what a km is. That's easy to do in the U. S. and I bet you live there. Me too.
1 meter = 3.281 feet
1 mile = 1609 meters = 1.609 kilometers
1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet
1 foot = 0.3048 meters
1 yard = 0.9144 meters
1 kilometer = 3281 feet = 0.6241 miles
Since a kilometer (km) is over half a mile, you better use meters to measure the height of a tree.
2007-02-20 15:18:31 · answer #1 · answered by A1973 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to know how any one living in today's world could forget what is a km. The meter was originally defined as 1/40,000,000th of the polar circumference of the Earth, then as the length of a particular bar of platinum-iridium alloy; then in terms of the wavelength of light emitted by a specified atomic transition; and now is defined as the distance traveled by light in an absolute vacuum during 1/299,792,458 of a second. 1km=.6miles
2007-02-20 20:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by cartiphilus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋