If you use stoichometry you can convert your units
9.83 seconds
over 100 meters a kilometer is 1000 meters so
9.83/100 *10 because what you do to denominator needs to happen to numerator
98.3 seconds
over 1 kilometer
it take the sprinter 98.3 seconds to run a kilometer and one way to check is well a kilo is a longer distance so logically the time it takes them has to be higher cause they cannot run a kilo faster than they run 1/10 of it