85 yards in feet

Result

The conversion result is: 85 yards is equivalent to 255 feet.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 85 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 / 85 yd = 3 ft / x ft

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

x ft = (85 yd / 1 yd) * 3 ft → x ft = 255 ft

Conclusion:

85 yd = 255 ft

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot is equal to 0.00392156862745098 times 85 yards.

It can also be expressed as: 85 yards is equal to 1 / 0.00392156862745098 feet.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: eighty-five yards is about two hundred and fifty-five feet, or alternatively, a foot is about zero times eighty-five 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.