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Unit conversion : Converting Yards into Inches

Sal Khan, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

Abstract

Wait, I'm in Europe and my car only tells my distance traveled in kilometers! But I'm used to a units of distance devised by the Romans to measure the average length of 1000 paces of a soldier (the mile)! How do I operate? This tutorial is about the fun. Source: Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org), used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. All Khan Academy content is available for free at www.khanacademy.org. Khan Academy does not endorse the World Public Library.

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