Question

How do you convert 700 centimeters to meters

Answer 1

We set up a proportion to do this. There are 100 cm in 1 meter to we use this:

700 cm ( 1 m / 100 cm )

The cm's will cancel each other out since there is one in both the numerator and the denominator. 

This leaves you with:

700 / 100 = 7.

The only units left when the centimeters cancel out is meters. 

So there are 7 meters in 700 centimeters.