{"id":247271,"date":"2025-07-07T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=247271"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:36:10","slug":"which-statement-is-not-a-correct-description-of-the-relationship-between-meters-and-nanometers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/which-statement-is-not-a-correct-description-of-the-relationship-between-meters-and-nanometers\/","title":{"rendered":"Which statement is NOT a correct description of the relationship between meters and nanometers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre id=\"preorder-ask-header-text\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Which statement is NOT a correct description of the relationship between meters and nanometers? A. 1 m = 10\u20139 nm B. 1 m = 1,000,000,000 nm C. 000 001 m = 1 nm D. 1 \/ 1,000,000,000 m = 1 nm<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>C. 000 001 m = 1 nm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The relationship between meters (m) and nanometers (nm) is based on the metric system, which uses powers of 10. Specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1 meter (m) is equal to 1,000,000,000 nanometers (nm)<\/strong>. This means that <strong>1 m = 1 \u00d7 10^9 nm<\/strong> or <strong>1 m = 1,000,000,000 nm<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, statement B is <strong>correct<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1 nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter<\/strong>, or <strong>1 nm = 10^-9 m<\/strong>. This makes statement <strong>A<\/strong> also <strong>correct<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1 nm = 1 \u00d7 10^-9 m<\/strong> means that <strong>1 \/ 1,000,000,000 m = 1 nm<\/strong>. This makes statement <strong>D<\/strong> correct as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <strong>statement C is incorrect<\/strong>. It says that <strong>000 001 m = 1 nm<\/strong>, which is equivalent to saying <strong>1 \u00b5m = 1 nm<\/strong>. This is false because <strong>1 micron (\u00b5m) is 1,000 nanometers<\/strong>, not 1. Therefore, statement C does not accurately reflect the relationship between meters and nanometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1 m = 1,000,000,000 nm<\/strong> is true.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1 m = 10^-9 nm<\/strong> is true.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1 \/ 1,000,000,000 m = 1 nm<\/strong> is true.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>000 001 m = 1 nm<\/strong> is incorrect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner5-996.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-247272\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which statement is NOT a correct description of the relationship between meters and nanometers? A. 1 m = 10\u20139 nm B. 1 m = 1,000,000,000 nm C. 000 001 m = 1 nm D. 1 \/ 1,000,000,000 m = 1 nm The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The correct answer is C. 000 001 m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}