72 miles in kilometers

Conversion formula
How to convert 72 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: 72 ⁢ mile = 115.87276800000001 ⁢ km

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 0.00863015544774075 times 72 miles.

It can also be expressed as: 72 miles is equal to $\frac{1}{\mathrm{0.00863015544774075}}$ kilometers.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: seventy-two miles is about one hundred and fifteen point eight seven kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about zero point zero one times seventy-two miles.