42 yards in meters

Result

The conversion result is: 42 yards is equivalent to 38.4048 meters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 42 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 / 42 yd = 0.9144 m / x m

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

x m = (42 yd / 1 yd) * 0.9144 m → x m = 38.4048 m

Conclusion:

42 yd = 38.4048 m

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 0.0260384118651835 times 42 yards.

It can also be expressed as: 42 yards is equal to 1 / 0.0260384118651835 meters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: forty-two yards is about thirty-eight point three nine meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero point zero three times forty-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.