217 kilometers per hour in feet per second

Conversion

217 kilometers per hour is equivalent to 197.761738116069 feet per second.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot per second is equal to 0.00505658986175115 times 217 kilometers per hour.

It can also be expressed as: 217 kilometers per hour is equal to $\frac{1}{0.00505658986175115}$ feet per second.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: two hundred and seventeen kilometers per hour is about one hundred and ninety-seven point seven five feet per second, or alternatively, a foot per second is about zero point zero one times two hundred and seventeen kilometers per hour.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Kilometers Per Hour

"The kilometer per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of kilometres travelled in one hour. The unit symbol is km/h. Worldwide, it is the most commonly used unit of speed on road signs and car speedometers."

Wikipedia page of kilometers per hour

Feet Per Second

'The foot per second (plural feet per second) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity, which includes direction). It expresses the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time in seconds (s, or sec). The corresponding unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the metre per second.Abbreviations include ft/s, ft/sec and fps, and the rarely used scientific notation ft s−1.'

Wikipedia page of feet per second

Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.