US customary length units.
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5,280
1 mi = 5,280 ft
US length ladder
- 1 ft = 12 in · 1 yd = 3 ft · 1 mi = 5280 ft = 1760 yd.
- These factors (12, 3, 1760) aren't powers of ten — that's why metric is easier to compute with.
- Inches split further into halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths on a ruler.
Your turn
How many inches in 2 yards?
5280 ft per mile is hard to recall — remember it as 'five tomato, five two eight oh'.
Conversions
- 1 ft = 12 in
- 1 yd = 3 ft
- 1 mi = 5280 ft = 1760 yd