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if I have 90,720 rolls of tape that is 3/4 x 22' how many m2 would that be?
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Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8" is going to be 7/16". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.
Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.
if I have 90,720 rolls of tape that is 3/4 x 22' how many m2 would that be?
One inch = 25.4 mm = 0.0254 meter wide
22 feet x 12 x 25.4 mm = 6,705.6 mm = 6.7056 meter long
6.7056 x 0.0254 = 0.1703224 square meter per roll
90,720 x 0.1703224 = 15451.63361 square meters total.
BTW we use Shift-6 for powers, like m^2.
More useful info: physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
You just have to memorize this stuff, at least the ones you work with all the time. It's ok to bookmark the page so you can look up the others when you run across them.
There is a prefix every three powers of ten, except for 100, 10, 1/10, and 1/100. To go from one to another you use the LARD rule: LEFT ADD RIGHT DEDUCT. When moving the decimal to the LEFT you ADD to the power of ten. When going to the RIGHT you DEDUCT from the power of ten.