How to Convert Feet Into Square Meters

Converting square feet to square meters is common when looking at houses or buildings in other countries. For on-the-fly calculations remember that one square foot is equal to roughly one-tenth of a square meter. The meter is the basic unit of length in virtually every country outside the United States; it also is the universal standard of length within the scientific and academic community.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Calculator

Converting Square Feet to Square Meters

1. Determine the initial value in square feet. For the sake of example, let's take 200 square feet.

2. Multiply the initial value by the conversion factor (0.09290304 square meters / 1 square foot). Notice in the example below how the square feet units cancel out. Continuing our example, this would look like: 200 cubic feet x (0.09290304 square meters / 1 square feet )

3. Write the value obtained in step 2 and label it with the square meter unit. This your final value, and is equivalent to the initial value. To conclude the example, the value would be: 200 square feet x (0.09290304 square meters / 1 square feet )= 18.58061 square meters when rounded to five decimal places.

Tips & Warnings

• The conversion factor was obtained by squaring the conversion factor of the base units (0.3048 meters / 1 feet ).

References

• Convert Feet to Meters

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