17 yards in meters
Result
The conversion result is: 17 yards is equivalent to 15.5448 meters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 17 yards to meters?
We know (by definition) that: 1 yd = 0.9144 m.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of meters.
1 yd / 17 yd = 0.9144 m / x m
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x m = (17 yd / 1 yd) * 0.9144 m → x m = 15.5448 m
Conclusion:
17 yd = 15.5448 m
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 0.0643301940198652 times 17 yards.
It can also be expressed as: 17 yards is equal to 1 / 0.0643301940198652 meters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: seventeen yards is about fifteen point five three meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero point zero six times seventeen 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.