17 miles in kilometers

Conversion formula
How to convert 17 miles to kilometers?

We know (by definition) that: $1\mathrm{mile}=1.609344\mathrm{km}$

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of kilometers.

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

Conclusion: 17 ⁢ mile = 27.358848000000002 ⁢ km

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 0.0365512466021961 times 17 miles.

It can also be expressed as: 17 miles is equal to $\frac{1}{\mathrm{0.0365512466021961}}$ kilometers.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: seventeen miles is about twenty-seven point three five kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about zero point zero four times seventeen miles.