Conversion formula

The conversion factor from decimeters to meters is 0.1, which means that 1 decimeter is equal to 0.1 meters:

1 dm = 0.1 m

To convert 10000 decimeters into meters we have to multiply 10000 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from decimeters to meters. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 dm → 0.1 m

10000 dm → L_(m)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the length L in meters:

L_(m) = 10000 dm × 0.1 m

L_(m) = 1000 m

The final result is:

10000 dm → 1000 m

We conclude that 10000 decimeters is equivalent to 1000 meters:

10000 decimeters = 1000 meters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 meter is equal to 0.001 × 10000 decimeters.

Another way is saying that 10000 decimeters is equal to 1 ÷ 0.001 meters.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that ten thousand decimeters is approximately one thousand meters:

10000 dm ≅ 1000 m

An alternative is also that one meter is approximately zero point zero zero one times ten thousand decimeters.