Problem 49067. Area Conversion 1

Created by Doddy Kastanya

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Given an area in ft^2, convert it to m^2.

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Chris on 3 Aug 2021

need to use 3.28089357 and then round 4...

Vishnuram Hariharan on 13 Jul 2022

round to 4 places

Tran Tran on 21 Jul 2022

conv ratio is 10.76425 by revers result i has it.remember round to 4

Christian Schröder on 5 Oct 2022

This is an amazingly ill-specified problem. A foot is exactly 0.3048 meters by definition, and the test suite apparently uses a different value, in addition to requiring rounding to four decimal digits (which is neither necessary nor correct).

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 29 Oct 2022

Never use equality tests with floats.

Khoi Nguyen on 20 Sep 2023

dont use isequal() on a fricking float
also if you wanted to round a number to a specific decimal place, SPECIFY IT IN THE DESCRIPTION

Zuha Altaf on 21 Jul 2024

What is the issue with this problem, even when the values come up same it shows assertion failed?

Christian Schröder on 26 Jul 2024

@Zuha Altaf Try rounding to four decimal digits.

Paul Bevillard on 10 Jan 2025

A lot of negative comments and for just reason. I was banging my head on this for some time.
The option that worked for me is this, you're given feet squared and the answer of square meters in the sample problems. Easiest way is to find the conversion that works:
m^2 = ft^2 x conversion_FudgeFactor.
Get conversion_FudgeFactor to one side and solve. Use 'round' to 4 decimal places. It's really not fudged as you can get the answer online for direct conversion of ft^2 to m^2.
Just be careful of significant numbers. I used 4 decimal places.

Matthew on 19 Dec 2025 at 19:45

Terrible problem >:( The exact conversion is 1 foot = 0.3048 m). The test cases are incorrect.

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