Questions and answers on how to convert things from one unit or system to another

Forum rules

Dear convert-me.com forum visitors,

Our forum has been available for many years. In September 2014 we decided to switch it to read-only mode. Month after month we saw less posts with questions and answers from real people and more spam posts. We were spending more and more resources cleaning the spam until there were less them 1 legitimate message per 100 spam posts. Then we decided it's time to stop.

All the posts in the forum will be available and searchable. We understand there are a lot of useful information and we aren't going to remove anything. As for the new questions, you can always ask them on convert-me.com FaceBook page

Thank you for being with us and sorry for any inconveniences this could caused.

1 meter equals 4 feet...rrright?

Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:26 am

4 feet to a meter right?

Re: 1 meter equals 4 feet...rrright?

Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:46 am

dolpfan6969 wrote:4 feet to a meter right?


3.28 to be exact. See http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/un ... er.en.html

conversion

Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:41 pm

[quote][/quote]
I need to cut 50 yards of ribbons to this length 19.5 inches, how many pcs can I cut it.

thanks

Re: conversion

Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:25 pm

jlim wrote:

I need to cut 50 yards of ribbons to this length 19.5 inches, how many pcs can I cut it.

thanks

There are 3 feet to 1 yard. There are 12 inches to one foot.

Convert Yards to feet to inches, and divide by 19.5

(50 yd * 3 ft/yd * 12 in/ft ) / 19.5 in

More info

List of all units you can convert online
Metric conversion
Convert pounds to gallons
Convert grams to cups
Grams to milliliters
Imperial vs US Customary
History of measurement