How many feet in a yard?
Yards to feet length units conversion factor is 3. To find out how many feet in yards, multiply it by 3. Yard is an imperial, US customary unit. It equals to 3 feet or 36 inches. The abbreviation is "yd". Foot is an imperial, US customary length unit and commonly used in daily life. It is defined to be 0.3048 yards. Historically, it is one of the oldest length units since they were using parts of human body as a measurement of length. 1 foot is 12 inches. The abbreviation is "ft" or (') prime symbol.
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114 Comments
Glenn Rickert
The people who got this wrong are not stupid or uneducated. They most likely come from a country that only uses the metric system and they are not familiar with the imperial measurements as we are in the USA. I bet most Americans would screw up every minor measurement in metric as to how big a litre or gram is, or all the other measurements, so if they asked a question like that, I'm quite certain that most Americans would have gotten it completely wrong. A worldwide score of 12% wrong is actually rather low considering how many people in the world use the metric system only and not imperial. So before people start assuming that other quizzclub members are stupid or uneducated, remember, culture and popular knowledge is different everywhere you go. Please have some respect for people from different countries and cultures.
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Jul 22, 2015 7:17PM
Victor Deming
The answer to this question depends on how big your back yard is, and how many friends you have!
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May 7, 2015 9:36PM
Ruby Henderson
Bill Fultz you can always get out if you do not like the website, that would be better than making nasty remarks some of you make! Control your lifestyle please!
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Jul 21, 2015 11:58AM
Jeff Youmans
How many feet in a yard depends on how many people you invite over lol
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Jul 3, 2019 10:12AM
Ray Anderson
New Zealand converted to the metric system in 1966, the year I started High School. I still have difficulty imagining metric measurements. A 100mm x 50mm piece of timber is still a 4 by 2 (2 by 4 to you American people), a hand-span is 8 inches, not 200mm etc. The metric system is much easier to perform calculations in but I still belive it is not as accurate for measurement - in imperial, we had inches, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and 1/64 on a ruler, the metric ruler only has centimetres and millimetres (roughly 1/3 and 1/25 inches).
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Jun 5, 2019 7:12PM
Ronald Livingston
Look at the other answers, 12% missed it. I didn't think it would be that high. Chill out, it's only a game, if it is going to upset you, don't play.
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Jul 21, 2015 12:43PM
George Oliver Prince
Still a fair question, those who use the imperial system have to answer metric questions on here
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May 14, 2019 6:47AM
carlthedad
My grandfather told me the number of feet in a yard depended on how many people were standing in it.
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Aug 27, 2019 1:26AM
sftcw
James Cansler, Many of those who got it wrong are probably from countries (over 90%) that do not use the British (or impwrial) system - - yard, feet, pound ounce etc. Even the British don’t use it any more. Those who don’t recognize that people from other countries have no reason to know yards vs feet probably wouldn’t be helped by going back to school.
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May 12, 2019 7:14PM
Joseph Posada
I still think we should be metric lol
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Jul 23, 2015 11:20PM
Bank-Robber
EASY almost too easy!!!
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Jun 25, 2022 5:57AM
Nadine Baldock
Mark Flanagan, Ha ha... I hope you are joking. Made me laugh anyway today... thank you. X
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Oct 2, 2020 8:17AM
Nadine Baldock
A yard is 36 inches.. a metre is just over approx 39 inches.. even though I hate metric measurements as I'm too old to learn, anyone ought to know this answer..although I understand some countries have used the metric much longer than the UK. . I'm of the old school and I still work in inches, feet, and yards... It's like Centimetres I'm totally lost..
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Oct 2, 2020 8:13AM
Kim McDonald
Victor Deming, hahaha. good one!
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Sep 19, 2020 6:45PM
Irene Townsend
Ray Anderson, I came to NZ 1966 and we were still in imperial measurements then, I started work at Farmers just before Christmas that same year. Our money when into Dollars in 1968 and I'm pretty sure we changed the imperial about then too.
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Jun 10, 2020 6:19AM
Irene Townsend
galambos, Yep 1metre is 39inches. or 3ft 3inches. and you're right been mature (older) and on holiday (retired) definitely has advantages
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Jun 10, 2020 6:14AM
galambos
As a quilter I like to buy fabric in the countries I travel in. I know 1 meter is a little over a yard. That is all I need to know. Old and retired has it's advantages.
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May 2, 2020 7:53PM
Mary Tyson Craven
It always amazes me at how upset people get with these questions. We are all different and we all have a little knowledge about different things. Besides that hasn't anyone ever just hit the wrong button? If not. . . .you are a much better player than I am! Enjoy your day and air hugs!!
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Apr 28, 2020 5:41PM
Lori Wiser-Dyas
Glenn Rickert, I wouldnt be so sure about your assertion Anericsns cannot handle metrics.
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Apr 11, 2020 12:43PM
usha
Easiest to answer snd made me score 15/15
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Mar 12, 2020 10:16PM
Selina Street
Mónica Trozo, Not necessarily. If you like carpentry,. the imperial measure is far easier.
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Feb 11, 2020 10:13AM
teresab
I still sew in imperial measures.
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Jan 13, 2020 4:46AM
dsneed
Teri Davis Newman,
Unfortunately we are discovering that America is sadly lacking in education for various reasons. The number of people that I have encountered in my 74 years that lack common knowledge and common sense is appalling.
I am referring to the average person working an average job, reception, waitress, sales clerk, etc.
No specific degree needed but no interest in common knowledge, manners or education either. It is very sad indeed. Makes me want to rejoin Mensa just to speak with people on my intelectual level.
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Dec 31, 2019 3:49AM
dsneed
tesla alset, 👍
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Dec 31, 2019 3:33AM
dsneed
It depends on the size of the yard and how many people are standing on it. Yuk yuk yuk! Yay me.
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Dec 31, 2019 3:27AM
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