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35 kilometer = how many miles

For the exact answer, even with no calculator or PC available...

You should have at least one metric conversion factor that you know. Even if you have to go all the way to 2.54 cm = 1 inch you can do the exact conversion easily.

(35 km / 1)(1000 m / 1 km)(100 cm / 1 m)(1 in / 2.54 cm)(1 ft / 12 in)(1 mi / 5280 ft)

Easy stuff, you could have figured it out quicker than posting it.

Shame on you!

Viper GTS
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
For the exact answer, even with no calculator or PC available...

You should have at least one metric conversion factor that you know. Even if you have to go all the way to 2.54 cm = 1 inch you can do the exact conversion easily.

(35 km / 1)(1000 m / 1 km)(100 cm / 1 m)(1 in / 2.54 cm)(1 ft / 12 in)(1 mi / 5280 ft)

Easy stuff, you could have figured it out quicker than posting it.

Shame on you!

Viper GTS
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5280 ft in a mile? wtf?! who came up with it?
 
Tradition holds that King Henry I decreed that a
yard should be the distance from the tip of his nose to the end of his outstretched thumb. The
length of a furlong (or furrow-long) was established by early Tudor rulers as 220 yards. This led
Queen Elizabeth I to declare in the 16th century, that henceforth the traditional Roman mile of
5000 feet would be replaced by one of 5280 feet, making the mile exactly eight furlongs and
providing a convenient relationship between the furlong and the mile.


Gotta love google. From http://standards.nasa.gov/history_metric.pdf

Now, why in hell only one country in the world still insists in keeping this nonsense?
 
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