"150 centimeters is equivalent to 1.5 meters. You can use conversion factors to find the answer. By knowing that 100 centimeters is equal to 1 meter, you can easily convert between centimeters and meters. Another way to make conversions is to know that the prefix centi- in the word centimeter means 1/100 or one-hundredth of a meter.Learning the different conversion factors for millimeters,
Read more.... kilometers, and other measurements is simple if you know what the different prefixes mean. For example, the prefix kilo means 1000, so we can see that 1000 meters is equal to 1 kilometers. Likewise, 1000 millimeters is equal to 1 meter. In the metric system, there are many other types of conversion factors. Once you know these, you can easily convert not only between different metric measurements but also between the Imperial and metric systems. For example, 150 centimeters is equal to 4.92 feet. You can find this by knowing that 2.54 centimeters is equal to 1 inch. Dividing 150 by 2.54, you get 59.05 inches. You need to divide this number by 12 inches to get the number of feet as 4.92."