Question

What is 60 inches in feet?

Answer 1

Here we need to convert one unit form into another unit form. Here we need to convert 60 inches to feet. We know that inches and feet are measurements of distance or length. We know that 1 foot is equal to 12 inches or 12 inches is equal to 1 feet. That is $12\; inches = 1 \; feet$. Using the unitary method, we can solve this.

Complete answer:
Given, 60 inches
We know that $12\; inches = 1 \; feet$
That is 12 inches is equal to 1 feet.
Then 60 inches is equal to ____
$=\dfrac{60\times 1}{12}$
$=5\,feet$
That is 60 inches is equal to 5 feet.

Note:
The basic rule of converting the larger unit to smaller unit, we multiply. While converting the smaller unit to larger unit, we divide. This is applicable for all unit conversion. If they have asked to convert 5 feet to inches, we need to multiply 5 with 12, because feet are larger and inches are small.
That is, we get,
$5\ \times \ 12=60\,\,inches$.