172 US customary cups in liters
Result
The conversion result is: 172 US customary cups is equivalent to 40.693176678 liters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 172 US customary cups to liters?
We know (by definition) that: 1 uscup ≈ 0.2365882365 liter.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of liters.
1 uscup / 172 uscup ≈ 0.2365882365 liter / x liter
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x liter ≈ (172 uscup / 1 uscup) * 0.2365882365 liter → x liter ≈ 40.693176678 liter
Conclusion:
172 uscup ≈ 40.693176678 liter

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 liter is equal to 0.0245741444054092 times 172 US customary cups.
It can also be expressed as: 172 US customary cups is equal to 1 / 0.0245741444054092 liters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: one hundred and seventy-two US customary cups is about forty point six eight liters, or alternatively, a liter is about zero point zero two times one hundred and seventy-two US customary cups.
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.