40 dry gallons in US dry barrels
Result
The conversion result is: 40 dry gallons is equivalent to 1.52382369614512 US dry barrels.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 40 dry gallons to US dry barrels?
We know (by definition) that: 1 drygallon ≈ 0.0380955924036281 drybarrel.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of US dry barrels.
1 drygallon / 40 drygallon ≈ 0.0380955924036281 drybarrel / x drybarrel
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x drybarrel ≈ (40 drygallon / 1 drygallon) * 0.0380955924036281 drybarrel → x drybarrel ≈ 1.523823696145124 drybarrel
Conclusion:
40 drygallon ≈ 1.523823696145124 drybarrel

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 US dry barrel is equal to 0.656243896541141 times 40 dry gallons.
It can also be expressed as: 40 dry gallons is equal to 1 / 0.656243896541141 US dry barrels.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: forty dry gallons is about one point five two US dry barrels, or alternatively, a US dry barrel is about zero point six six times forty dry gallons.
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.