Conversion formula

The conversion factor from liters to deciliters is 10, which means that 1 liter is equal to 10 deciliters:

1 L = 10 dL

To convert 0.5 liters into deciliters we have to multiply 0.5 by the conversion factor in order to get the volume amount from liters to deciliters. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 L → 10 dL

0.5 L → V_(dL)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the volume V in deciliters:

V_(dL) = 0.5 L × 10 dL

V_(dL) = 5 dL

The final result is:

0.5 L → 5 dL

We conclude that 0.5 liters is equivalent to 5 deciliters:

0.5 liters = 5 deciliters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 deciliter is equal to 0.2 × 0.5 liters.

Another way is saying that 0.5 liters is equal to 1 ÷ 0.2 deciliters.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that zero point five liters is approximately five deciliters:

0.5 L ≅ 5 dL

An alternative is also that one deciliter is approximately zero point two times zero point five liters.

Conversion table

liters to deciliters chart

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from liters to deciliters