72 months equals how many years?

72 months equals 6 years.

To figure this out, we recognize the well-known relationship between months and years. That is, there are 12 months in 1 year.

• 12 months = 1 year

Since there are 12 months in a year, 1 month would be 1/12 of a year. This gives us another fact relating months and years.

• 1 month = (1/12) years

Since 1 month contains 1/12 of a year, 72 months would contain 72 copies of 1/12 of a year. In other words, to determine how many years 72 months is equal to, we multiply 72 by 1/12, which is the same as dividing 72 by 12.

• 72 × (1/12) = 72 ÷ 12 = 6

We get that 72 months is equal to 6 years.