Hi Guys,

I did a search on this piece of property and the approx area is given as 0.038 ha.

In terms of 1/4, 1/8, etc does this mean the land is 1/32 or 1/8 subdivided into 4 pieces?

Thanks.

I Kenya, the common parlance when it comes to land measurement is ACRES, that said, the land is approx. 0.093898 Acres(Acre=Ha X 2.471). This means is slighly less than an eighth of an acre 0.1250.

@ Gath, It's HECTARES. 1hectare (ha) is equivalent to land measuring 100 metres by 100 metres or 10000 square metres.

1 acre is equivalent to 0.4047ha

10Mx10M=100 SQUARE METRES= 1 ACRE
100MX100M=10,000 SQUARE METRES=1 HECTARE

hi,
0.038ha = 4090 sq.ft
taking 1 side as 100ft
=> 4090/100 = 40.9ft
hence the size becomes 40 x 100ft
or 50 x 80 ft
or there about.

WRONG!

VERY WRONG!

Do you really think 1ha = 100acres? that's what you calculation gives.

Acres are imperial quantities, so they are NOT define in terms of metres. My diary says 1acre = 4,840 square yards; 1 yard = 3ft, 1ft = 12 inches, 1inch = 2.54cm

Now if you work backwards, you will see that you are very wrong.

My diary says, 1ha = approx 2.4711acres.

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Now; what we call 1/8 is actually approx 50ft x 100ft. I.e., 5,000sq.ft. But if check 1/8 of acre from the diary definition, you find that it is bigger than 5,000sq.ft.

My guess is that if the plot is surveyed as a proper rectangle, it probably measures 40ft x 80ft

U r wrong on the first but right on the second one.

1 acre=4046.9 sq. M (say 40 X 100 Metres.)
1 hectare= 10,000 sq. M (100M X 100M)

Hectare sawa. 100m*100m or a football field. I thought an acre was 220ft by 220ft but something is not adding up. How do we arrive at 2.471 as we know it?

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Answer::
An acre is actually, slightly less than (220 ft by 220 ft)
1 acre is approx. 43,560 sft , that should be around (220 ft X 198 ft)

If u do the conversion, 1 hectare (10,000 sqm) to sft should give you 107,643 sft (10,000/0.0929 or 10,000 X 10.7643)

so working with these:-

107,643/43,560 = 2.4711