Question

How mamy feet are in 5 yards?? Explain how you caculated you answer

Answer 1

Answer: 15 feet

Explanation:

There are 3 feet in 1 yard. You need 5 yards. You could add 3+3+3+3+3 to get 15

A quicker way is to multiply 3×5 = 15.

Some teachers like unit multipliers:

3 ft/yd × 5yd/1

The yd in the denominator of the first factor cancels the yd in the numerator of the second factor. So you end up with 3ft× 5 = 15ft.

Answer 2

There is 15 feet in 5 yards.

To find this, you would need to know:

1 yard = 3 feet

Since we know every 1 yard contains 3 feet, we can do 5*3 to get the number of feet that are in 5 yards.