Homework Help Needed

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Hey guys this is my first post Long time forum reader

This is my homework question:

Write a to convert a U.S. Customary System length in miles, yards, feet, and inches to a Metric System length in kilometers, meters, and centimeters. After the number of miles, yards, feet, and inches are read from the text boxes, the length should be converted entirely to inches and then divided by 39.97 to obtain the value in meters. The Int function should be used to break the total number of meters into a whole number of kilometers and meters. The number of centimeters should be displayed to one decimal place. Some of the needed forumlas are as follows.

total inches = 63360 * miles + 36 *yards +12 * feet + inches
total meters = total inches/39.37
Kilometers - Int(meters/1000)

In the diagram for the sample run:

Miles: 5
Yards: 20
Feet: 2
Inches: 4

When you click on the button " Covert To Metric" the follow is the output:

The metric length is
8 kilometers
65 meters
73.5 centimeters

Using the numbers in the sample run:

Total Inches = 317548
Total Meters - 317548/39.37 = 8065.735331
Kilometers = 8.065735331

So, I was able to get the Kilometers right baesd on the formula given. Howeverfor meters I seem to be off by quite a large number. I realize that I have calculated the "total meters" but is there something else I have to do to convert "total meters" into the Metric system?

Cheers,