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TSI Math: How Many Square Yards are in a Square Mile? 27 Views


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There are 3 feet in a yard and 5280 feet in a mile. A square mile is equivalent to how many square yards?


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00:03

Okay sy Mash members There are three feet in the

00:06

yard and five thousand two hundred eighty feet in the

00:09

mile Thank you very much A square mile is equivalent

00:11

to how many square yards A lot of numbers here

00:18

i'd think about it Square mile measures one mile by

00:21

one mile since one miles five to eight o feet

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Well there's going to be five to eight o times

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five to eight o get calculator here that's the number

00:29

twenty seven million in change square feet in a mile

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Oh inconceivable Well there are three feet in a yard

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so one square yard see that's the trick here of

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three times Three that's nine square feet in a square

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yard not three Therefore the number of square yards in

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a mile is this twenty seven million number divided by

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nine so it's three million and change here and you

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could just eyeball that The answer is c so that's 00:00:53.654 --> [endTime] it we're smoked Oh no

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