72 months in years
Result
The conversion result is: 72 months is equivalent to 6 years.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 72 months to years?
We know (by definition) that: 1 mo ≈ 0.083333333 yr.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of years.
1 mo / 72 mo ≈ 0.083333333 yr / x yr
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x yr ≈ (72 mo / 1 mo) * 0.083333333 yr → x yr ≈ 5.999999976 yr
Conclusion:
72 mo ≈ 5.999999976 yr
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 year is equal to 0.166666666666667 times 72 months.
It can also be expressed as: 72 months is equal to 1 / 0.166666666666667 years.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: seventy-two months is about zero years, or alternatively, a year is about zero point one seven times seventy-two months.
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.