Question

A walking trail through a forest preserve is 34,215 meters in length .What is length in kilometers of the trail ?

Answer 1

34.215 kilometers you move the decimal to the left three places because Kilo means 1000 and there are 3 zeros in 1000. you move left because Kilometer is bigger than meter.

Answer 2

For this case, the first thing you should do is take into account the following unit conversion:

$1 Km = 1000m$

Therefore, we must apply the conversion to the given amount.

We have then:

$34215m(\frac{1Km}{1000m})=34.215Km$

Answer:

The length in kilometers of the trail is 34.215Km.