Conversion formula

The conversion factor from feet to kilometers is 0.0003048, which means that 1 foot is equal to 0.0003048 kilometers:

1 ft = 0.0003048 km

To convert 9997 feet into kilometers we have to multiply 9997 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from feet to kilometers. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 ft → 0.0003048 km

9997 ft → L_(km)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the length L in kilometers:

L_(km) = 9997 ft × 0.0003048 km

L_(km) = 3.0470856 km

The final result is:

9997 ft → 3.0470856 km

We conclude that 9997 feet is equivalent to 3.0470856 kilometers:

9997 feet = 3.0470856 kilometers

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 kilometer is equal to 0.32818244423458 × 9997 feet.

Another way is saying that 9997 feet is equal to 1 ÷ 0.32818244423458 kilometers.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that nine thousand nine hundred ninety-seven feet is approximately three point zero four seven kilometers:

9997 ft ≅ 3.047 km

An alternative is also that one kilometer is approximately zero point three two eight times nine thousand nine hundred ninety-seven feet.