If you want to turn square feet into square meters, you are not alone! Even if you are American, you need to understand math, if you buy a house, apartment or office space or rent in many buildings across the Atlantic.
To do some calculations on the fly, you need to keep in mind that a square foot is one tenth (approximately) of one square meter. And the meter, as a rule, is a common unit for measuring length in about all countries outside the United States. Today, it is also the universal standard for length measurement used by the scientific or academic community.
However, let's move on to the details of square feet in square meters, shall we? Your first task in your hand was to determine the basic meaning. For example, we will work with 300 square feet first.
Multiply the first value (300 square feet) by a fixed conversion factor. To illustrate this, you'll multiply square feet with (0.09290304 sq. Meters / 1 sq. Feet)
- is the conversion factor. You should also note that in the following example, both square feet of the unit will be canceled. Let's continue our example. It would look something like this: 300 square feet x (0.09290304 sq. M. / 1 sq. Ft.)
Now write down the value you got here, and a simple label with a square meter. This is the final value, which is equal to your initial cost (300 sq. Ft). This means that the cost can be: 200 square meters. Feet (0.09290304 sq. M. / 1 sq. Ft.) = 27.87091 square meters. Here we rounded to two decimal places. Are you wondering how this conversion factor appeared? We got it by simply squaring the base unit conversion factor (i.e., 0.3048 meters / 1 foot).
SI is officially known as the International System of Units. It defines 1 square meter as a unit of measure for land. However, the United States and many other countries are now using a square foot as a unit of area measurement. On July 1, 1959, the US NBS or the National Bureau of Standards stated that the leg is 1,200 or 3,937 meters.
And this is how the formula turned into square meters. This is the same as we said before. To convert the foot into a meter, you need to divide 1,200 by 3.937. Thus, you get a coefficient of 3048.
