1600 cm. Meter/meter is the basic unit of length in the international system of units, with the symbol M, where one meter is equal to 100 cm and 36 meters is equal to 3600 cm. According to the mathematical multiplication and division method, we can know that 3600 cm divided by 9 times 4 is equal to 1600 cm. Multiplication and division is a method for solving mathematical multi-objective programming problems.