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A steel pipe measures62.95 feet. How manykilometers is this?[ ? ] kmBe sure to round your answer to thecorrect number of significant figures.Length in kmEnter

A steel pipe measures62.95 feet. How manykilometers is this?[ ? ] kmBe sure to round-example-1
User Freek De Bruijn
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Recall that:


1\operatorname{km}=3280.84\text{ ft.}

Therefore:


1ft=(1)/(3280.84)km\text{.}

Multiplying the above by 62.95, we get:


(62.95)/(3280.84)km=0.01918715939\operatorname{km}\text{.}

Now, since the initial number has 4 significant figures, we get that the conversion is:


0.01919km.

Answer:


0.01919\text{ km.}

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