Question

2. A person's height is 73 inches. How

would you convert this height to feet
using a conversion factor?
a.
73in 12 in
ift
1
b.
73in ift
1
12in

Answer 1

6.08 ft

Explanation:

In this problem we are expected to do unit conversion from inches to feet.

from table we can see that

if 1 inches is 0.0833333 ft

then 73 inches will be x ft

By cross multiplication we can solve for the value of x which is

]x= 6.08 ft

Hence the person is 6.08 ft tall