Solve a discussion please - how long in cm/feet is a yard?

[lucysmam]

The more answers, the better 🙂

aaandd .... Mornington Crescent!!!!!

Only if the bath is emptying at a consistent rate, obviously.

I felt that went without saying.

Er, no. A yard is three feet or 36 inches long.
Take your pick from previous replies as to how many centimeters there are in a yard, it appears to vary somewhat.

That would explain it.

A yard is 3ft (36 inches)

I think about 91.5 cms.

Does anyone else remember having a ruler with both inches & cms?

12 inches/30cms but they weren't quite equal.

Well my yard is just over 10,000 square feet (so says the city who taxes me) It’s a bit of a weird shape so I’m not sure whose feet they were using.
But it’s big enough for my house and garden. Some sections are unusable too steep. It’s an okay yard.

Easily googleable.

if I'm wanting accuracy I'll stick to either imperial or metric.

Depends how important accuracy is

If I wanted a yard of fabric and it was sold by the metre I'd buy a metre.
If I wanted a cupboard to fit in a space 3' wide but the cupboard I was looking at was 1m wide I'd not buy it coz I needed one that was 91.44cm and the 1m wide one would be too big.

I didnt know, I hazarded a guess

I can’t tell if you’re serious or not?

Okay i dont know 😫😫

I dont use yards and have only heard it in reference to a crime scene, on GMB

You get roughly 10% more fabric with a meter, so no it’s not pretty much the same

3 feet so 36 inches, 90 ish cm, or a bit shy of a metre. It’s about the longest step I can take if I need a quick estimate of a space. I’d have to google for accuracy.

Why more answers the better? I think this thread proves it’s not better, judging by the answers given. Surely you just need a correct answer.

3 feet in a yard or 36 inches

Did you all know that those road signs that say yards are actually spaced in metres, and that the countdown signs on motorways are also 100m apart not 100 yards?

So if you were using them to measure yards, you'd make the kind of mistakes seen on this thread.

Oh well played, well played indeed.

It’s a rare treat to see such skilled and well-timed execution of Post Noon Orchard Amendment (1984), subsection 4: Unscheduled Appearances.

Some yards are barely big enough to hang your washing out, but other yards are big enough for the kids to play football in.

Depends whether it’s southern or northern hemisphere, tho’

Various rhyming couplets were publicised when England ‘went metric’.
I have taught them ever since, when conversion between imperial and metric has been on the syllabus.

Then one you want is
A metre measures 3 foot 3
It’s longer than a yard, you see.

If I wanted a yard of material I’d ask for 90cm.
90cm = 35.433 inches. A yard is 36”. Waste not.

edit: 3 foot 3 is poetic for 3 feet 3 inches.

About the length of the waist elastic I cut when I make trousers, which is conveniently about the width of my dining table.

1 yard = 7 feet or or/ 2.5 furlongs or/ 1897.3 cm

It's 0.0004937365 of a nautical mile.

@mumofoneAloneandwell "A yard is a foot imo"

A yard might be a foot "in your opinion" but in the very real world of metrology it is 3 feet.

i had a rolf Harris album as a child that had the song Jake the Peg on it. So I learnt from a young age that three feet make a yard