Question

86cm =__ meters?

Answer 1

0.86 meter

Answer 2

0.86 m

Answer 3

0.86m

Answer 4

The beauty of the metric system is that everything is by a factor of 10. 10mm to a cm, 100cm to a m, 1000m to a km. This makes conversions ridiculously simple - 86cm is how many times 86 goes into 100:
\[86\div 100=0.86\]