5 yards in meters
Result
The conversion result is: 5 yards is equivalent to 4.572 meters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 5 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 / 5 yd = 0.9144 m / x m
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x m = (5 yd / 1 yd) * 0.9144 m → x m = 4.572 m
Conclusion:
5 yd = 4.572 m
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 0.218722659667542 times 5 yards.
It can also be expressed as: 5 yards is equal to 1 / 0.218722659667542 meters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: five yards is about four point five seven meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero point two two times 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.