Suppose you are 5 feet 2 inches tall. Give your height in meters and centimeters.

Question:- Suppose you are 5 feet 2 inches tall. Give your height in meters and centimeters.

Answer: The correct answer is 1.57 meters or one hundred and fifty- seven centimetres.

The whole height was firstly converted to inches and then conversion factors to meters and centimetres were used. Here we have 5 feet to which we add 2 inches and hence 5 feet 2 inches translates to 5*12 meters + 2 inches = 62 inches. Eighteen centimetres and, therefore, 62 multiplied by 2.54 to get 157. 48 centimetres, and rounding all the numbers in the height to the nearest whole number is 157 cm. To express it in meters then we just divide it by 100 it equals one meter or else it’s symbol ‘m’ 1.57 meters. This type of conversion is useful in situations where one needs to communicate with people in other countries or if the values themselves are to be used for some purposes, as the metric system is considered to be universal in most parts of the world. However, relevance to reality requires full adherence to the fact that this conversion does not distort and is exact however, the value of height is estimated using common units of measurement.