Conversion formula

The conversion factor from meters to decimeters is 10, which means that 1 meter is equal to 10 decimeters:

1 m = 10 dm

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

1 m → 10 dm

10000 m → L_(dm)

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

L_(dm) = 10000 m × 10 dm

L_(dm) = 100000 dm

The final result is:

10000 m → 100000 dm

We conclude that 10000 meters is equivalent to 100000 decimeters:

10000 meters = 100000 decimeters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 decimeter is equal to 1.0E-5 × 10000 meters.

Another way is saying that 10000 meters is equal to 1 ÷ 1.0E-5 decimeters.

Approximate result

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

10000 m ≅ 100000 dm

An alternative is also that one decimeter is approximately zero times ten thousand meters.