3 miles in feet

Result

The conversion result is: 3 miles is equivalent to 15840 feet.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 3 miles to feet?

We know (by definition) that: 1 mile = 5280 ft.

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

1 mile / 3 mile = 5280 ft / x ft

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

x ft = (3 mile / 1 mile) * 5280 ft → x ft = 15840 ft

Conclusion:

3 mile = 15840 ft

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot is equal to 6.31313131313131e-05 times 3 miles.

It can also be expressed as: 3 miles is equal to 1 / 6.31313131313131e-05 feet.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: three miles is about fifteen thousand, eight hundred and forty feet, or alternatively, a foot is about zero times three miles.

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.