72 yards in feet
Result
The conversion result is: 72 yards is equivalent to 216 feet.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 72 yards to feet?
We know (by definition) that: 1 yd = 3 ft.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of feet.
1 yd / 72 yd = 3 ft / x ft
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x ft = (72 yd / 1 yd) * 3 ft → x ft = 216 ft
Conclusion:
72 yd = 216 ft
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot is equal to 0.00462962962962963 times 72 yards.
It can also be expressed as: 72 yards is equal to 1 / 0.00462962962962963 feet.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: seventy-two yards is about two hundred and sixteen feet, or alternatively, a foot is about zero times seventy-two yards.
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.