Arithmetic Grade Six

Lesson One Hundred Seventy-eight: Meters and Yards



Converting yards to meters is accomplished by using .9144 as the conversion factor. That is, you multiply the number of yards by .9144 to get the equivalent distance in meters. Here are a few examples:


   YARDS	*	CONVERSION FACTOR	=	  METERS
    4		*	  .9144			=	   3.6576
    10		*	  .9144			=	   9.144
    12		*	  .9144			=	  10.9728
    2		*	  .9144			=	   1.8288

By the way, you probably know that there are 36 inches in a yard. One meter is equal to 39.37 inches.

NOTE: On the final applet for this lesson a very strange scoring method will be used so don't be surprised. It's not as bad as it seems at first, but if you make a lot of mistakes it will work against you. So, be very careful to enter only correct answers! The amount you score per correct answers increases as long as you enter only correct answers, but if you enter a wrong answer your scoring increment goes back to one.


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