4 yards in meters

Conversion

4 yards is equivalent to 3.6576 meters.^[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 4 yards to meters?

We know (by definition) that: $1 yd = 0.9144 m$

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

\frac{1 yd}{4 yd} = \frac{0.9144 m}{x m}

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

x m = \frac{4 yd}{1 yd} * 0.9144 m \to x m = 3.6576 m

Conclusion: $4 yd = 3.6576 m$

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 0.273403324584427 times 4 yards.

It can also be expressed as: 4 yards is equal to $\frac{1}{0.273403324584427}$ meters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: four yards is about three point six six meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero point two seven times four yards.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Yards

The yard (abbreviation: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. It is by international agreement in 1959 standardized as exactly 0.9144 meters. A metal yardstick originally formed the physical standard from which all other units of length were officially derived in both English systems.

Wikipedia page of yards

Meters

"The metre (international spelling) or meter (American spelling), (from the Greek noun μέτρον, \"measure\") is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m. The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds."

Wikipedia page of meters

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.

Conversion

Conversion formula How to convert 4 yards to meters?

Conversion in the opposite direction

Approximation

Conversion formula
How to convert 4 yards to meters?