Question

Which is greater 72 inches or 2 yards?

Answer 1

Hint: In order to answer this question, you must know about the different units of measurement. Miles, yards, feet, inches: these are all everyday units of measurement in the United States. The American football field even boasts its length in yards. The inch, foot, and yard all likely come from the Roman adaptation of the Egyptian cubit as a way to standardize trade.

Complete step-by-step solution:
In both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, the yard is an English unit of length that equals 3 feet or 36 inches. The yard is commonly used in field-length measurement for certain sports such as American and Canadian football, and association football (soccer).
The inch is a unit of length in the imperial and customary measurement systems of the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively. It is the same as $\dfrac{1}{{36}}$ garden or $\dfrac{1}{{12}}$ of a foot. The inch is mostly used in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is also sometimes used in Japan (as well as other countries) in relation to electronic parts, like the size of display screens.
To compare the two numbers, we first need to convert yards to inches.
In each yard there is 3 feet.
In each foot there is 12 inches.
$1yd = 36inch$
Therefore, we can write:
$2yards \times \dfrac{{3feet}}{{1yard}} \times \dfrac{{12inches}}{{1foot}} = 2 \times 3 \times 12 = 72inches$
The two amounts are the same. Neither is greater than the other.
$72inches = 2yards$

Note: A ruler measures in inches and is twelve inches long. A yardstick measures feet, inches and yards and is three feet long, while a meter stick measures meters, centimeters and millimeters and is one hundred centimeters long. Scales and balances are used for the measurement of an object’s weight.