How do you convert inches to yards?
Divide by 36. There are 12 inches in a foot and 3 feet in a yard, so a yard is exactly 36 inches.
90 inches of fabric is 2.5 yards. 30 inches is 0.833 yards, and that's where it gets awkward – yards don't break into tidy decimals, so for cloth it's often easier to say 5/6 of a yard, or just 2 feet 6 inches.
What are inches?
Inches are commonly used in the United States and the United Kingdom. An inch is defined as one twelth (1/12th) of a foot and used to measure small distances like the length of a pencil or the width of a book.
Inches are often used in construction, carpentry and engineering. They are also often found in the fashion industry for determining clothing sizes and are used to specify screen sizes for TVs and computer monitors.
To convert inches to other units you need to know the appropriate conversion factor. For example, to convert inches to centimeters you need to multiply the inch value by 2.54. To convert inches to millimeters the inch measurement is multiplied by 25.4.
Inches are used mainly in the United States but it is common to find people using inches in the United Kingdom especially for body measurements, trades and fashion. Inches are a standard worldwide in electronics and semiconductors.
What are yards?
A yard is 3 feet, or 36 inches, and is part of both the imperial and American systems. It is slightly shorter than a meter.
An American football field is 100 yards long between the goal lines, plus 10 yards of end zone at each end – 120 yards in all, or about 109.7m.
The yard is not an SI unit. Since 1959 it has been defined as exactly 0.9144m, so a meter is about 1.0936 yards.