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 500 meters into decimeters we have to multiply 500 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

500 m → L_(dm)

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

L_(dm) = 500 m × 10 dm

L_(dm) = 5000 dm

The final result is:

500 m → 5000 dm

We conclude that 500 meters is equivalent to 5000 decimeters:

500 meters = 5000 decimeters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 decimeter is equal to 0.0002 × 500 meters.

Another way is saying that 500 meters is equal to 1 ÷ 0.0002 decimeters.

Approximate result

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

500 m ≅ 5000 dm

An alternative is also that one decimeter is approximately zero times five hundred meters.

Conversion table

meters to decimeters chart

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