I don’t want to sound dumb, but why isn’t 10 square feet equal to 3 square meters?

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  1. Big JoeMay 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM

    You're not dumb at all. It's actually a common point of confusion when converting between square feet and square meters.

    The reason 10 square feet is not equal to 3 square meters has to do with the difference in how each unit of measurement is defined.

    Here's how it is done:
    1 square foot (ft²) = 0.092903 square meters (m²)

    1 square meter (m²) = 10.7639 square feet (ft²)

    So, to convert 10 square feet to square meters, you multiply by the conversion factor:

    10ft² × 0.092903 = 0.92903m²

    That’s why 10 square feet equals about 0.93 square meters, not 3 square meters.

    To make it clear:

    1 square meter is actually larger than 1 square foot.

    10 square feet is much smaller than 3 square meters.

    It might help to think of the difference as one square meter being around 3.3 feet by 3.3 feet, while one square foot is just 12 inches by 12 inches.

    Hope that clears things up.

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