72 feet in yards

Result

The conversion result is: 72 feet is equivalent to 24 yards.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 72 feet to yards?

We know (by definition) that: 1 ft ≈ 0.33333333 yd.

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of yards.

1 ft / 72 ft ≈ 0.33333333 yd / x yd

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:

x yd ≈ (72 ft / 1 ft) * 0.33333333 yd → x yd ≈ 23.999999759999998 yd

Conclusion:

72 ft ≈ 23.999999759999998 yd

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 yard is equal to 0.0416666666666667 times 72 feet.

It can also be expressed as: 72 feet is equal to 1 / 0.0416666666666667 yards.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: seventy-two feet is about zero yards, or alternatively, a yard is about zero point zero four times seventy-two feet.

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.