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about how tall are you?

Flora1

about how tall are you?

People I just know the metric way of saying my tall, please can someone explain about this of foot most of people talked in other question about saying foot, how can I know my tall in foot?

5 Sep 2010

Dear Flora try this site

http://www.metric-conversions.org/length/meters-to-feet.htm

Good luck

Love

NAty

5 Sep 2010

Flora1

I used this site nt and the answer was Answer: 150 m = 492.125 �

OR 492 � and 1.51 "

but I didn�t understand, can you explian please?

5 Sep 2010

The � represents feet and " represents inches. So you �re answer for 150m=492 �1.51" means that it is 492 feet and 1.51 inches.

5 Sep 2010

Did you perhaps mean to enter 1.5 m (150 cm)? When you do that, it gives you 4.92 � (4.92 feet) or 4 � and 11.05", so your height would be would be 4 �11". You would then say "I�m 4 feet 11 inches tall" or "I�m four foot eleven".

Try this one: http://www.metric-conversions.org/length/centimeters-to-feet.htm

5 Sep 2010

Flora1

I was wondering, so I can say I�m 4 foot 1 inch?

5 Sep 2010

Yes, you could and if you �re about 124 cm it would even be true.

However, it sounds a little odd to me. I �d be more likely to say "four one" or "four foot one" or, possibly, "I �m four feet and 1 inch tall". Hmmm, no, sorry, I take that back--that just doesn �t sound natural. I can �t see myself saying that.

5 Sep 2010

Flora1

hey I�m not 124, i m short but not like that. Come on!

5 Sep 2010

Apodo

In American English it �s OK to say four eleven, but Brit English uses four foot eleven.

We used to say six foot two but now we �ve gone metric we have to try remember what it is in cm. ...ummmm one eighty something? Tall, anyway.

BTW, we ask: How tall are you?

or What is your height? What is your height in feet and inches?

1 foot = 30cm (approx)

There are 12 inches in a foot.

1 inch = 2.5cm (approx)

5 Sep 2010

Flora1

sue this is not a joke!!!

5 Sep 2010

Flora1

well after your help I finally discovered Iam 5 � i am not 4 foot eleven, but anyway thanks for trying but it is really complicated at least to me.

5 Sep 2010

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