17 inches in feet
Result
The conversion result is: 17 inches is equivalent to 1.41666666666667 feet.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 17 inches to feet?
We know (by definition) that: 1 in ≈ 0.083333333 ft.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of feet.
1 in / 17 in ≈ 0.083333333 ft / x ft
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x ft ≈ (17 in / 1 in) * 0.083333333 ft → x ft ≈ 1.4166666609999998 ft
Conclusion:
17 in ≈ 1.4166666609999998 ft
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot is equal to 0.705882352941177 times 17 inches.
It can also be expressed as: 17 inches is equal to 1 / 0.705882352941177 feet.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: seventeen inches is about one point four one feet, or alternatively, a foot is about zero point seven one times seventeen inches.
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.