Okay, so I had this thing I needed to figure out. I had a measurement in inches, 69.1 inches to be exact, and I needed to know what that was in feet. I’m always getting these mixed up, so I decided to really nail it down this time and write it all out.
First, I grabbed my phone. I could’ve used a calculator, but my phone’s right there, you know? I knew I needed to do some division, because, well, feet are bigger than inches. I remembered that there are 12 inches in every foot. That’s the key number.
The Simple Math
So, I opened up the calculator app and punched in 69.1. Then I hit the division symbol (that little line with the dots above and below it) and typed in 12. I pressed equals, and boom! The answer popped up.
- I started with the inches: 69.1 inches
- I divided that by the number of inches in a foot: 12 inches/foot
The calculator showed 5.7583333… It’s a long number, but the important part is the 5. That means there are 5 whole feet in 69.1 inches.
Then, to figure out the leftover inches, I Look the numbers after the decimal point, that is, 0.758333, and muliply by 12. I pressed equals, and boom! The answer is 9.09996, the 9 means the leftover inches. Round up and we can say it 9.1 inches.
Putting It All Together
So, 69.1 inches is the same as 5 feet and 9.1 inches. I even double-checked it online, just to be super sure, and yep, I got it right. Now I won’t forget this one!
