A barleycorn is 1/3 of an inch. A rod is 5-1/2 yards. How many barleycorns in a rod?
2007-11-15 05:17:28 · 5 answers · asked by bubba 1 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
36 inches in 1 yard, so there are 228 inches in 5 1/2 yards.
There are 3 barleycorns in 1 inch, so there are 228 x 3 barleycorns in a rod - 684 barleycorns.
What is a barleycorn???
2007-11-15 05:22:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I got a different answer. There are 36 inches in one yard. So five yards would be 36 x 5 = 180. 1/2 yard is 18 inches. 180+18 =198. Since one barleycorn is 1/3 of a inch. 5 1/2 yards or one rod would hold 3x198 or 594 barleycorns.
That's my answer 594 barleycorns.
2007-11-15 05:43:21 · answer #2 · answered by Sicilian Godmother 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
so there are 36 barleycorns in a foot (3 x 12)
there are 36 x (16 and 1/2 ) barley corns in 5 and half yards
2007-11-15 06:03:22 · answer #3 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
36 to a foot
3 feet to a yard so it's
5 1/2 x 3 = 16 1/2 x 36 = 594
2007-11-15 07:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Home Depot or Lowe's. Make it Lowe's since Jimmy Johnson won a Las Vegas this week. Or if you live in a city large enough to have a drapery shop & curtain shop they'll have them. You can also try Sears. Their stores usually care things like that.
2016-04-04 02:48:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋