Saturday, May 17, 2014

Converting from inches to feet- area, volume and length

12 inches makes 1 foot.

If we are given a length in inches then we can divide the length in inches by 12  to get the answer in foots.

Example:

If length of a wall is 156 inches then it feet it will be 156/12 = 13 feet

Else if the length is not a exact multiple of 12, say 150 then we can write this as 12 feet and 6 inches or 25/2 feet or 12.5 feet. 
Just remember for these cases that  0.5 represents 6 inches not 5 inches.

Converting area in square inches to area in square feet.

To convert area that is in square inches we have to divide the area by (12 x 12 )= 144 to get the answer in square feet .

Converting volume in cubic inches to volume in cubic feet.

To convert volume that is in cubic inches we have to divide the volume by (12 x 12 x 12 ) =  1728 to get the answer in cubic feet .

 


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