WRONG!

VERY WRONG!

Do you really think 1ha = 100acres? that's what you calculation gives.

Acres are imperial quantities, so they are NOT define in terms of metres. My diary says 1acre = 4,840 square yards; 1 yard = 3ft, 1ft = 12 inches, 1inch = 2.54cm

Now if you work backwards, you will see that you are very wrong.

My diary says, 1ha = approx 2.4711acres.

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Now; what we call 1/8 is actually approx 50ft x 100ft. I.e., 5,000sq.ft. But if check 1/8 of acre from the diary definition, you find that it is bigger than 5,000sq.ft.

My guess is that if the plot is surveyed as a proper rectangle, it probably measures 40ft x 80ft

U r wrong on the first but right on the second one.

1 acre=4046.9 sq. M (say 40 X 100 Metres.)
1 hectare= 10,000 sq. M (100M X 100M)

Hectare sawa. 100m*100m or a football field. I thought an acre was 220ft by 220ft but something is not adding up. How do we arrive at 2.471 as we know it?

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Answer::
An acre is actually, slightly less than (220 ft by 220 ft)
1 acre is approx. 43,560 sft , that should be around (220 ft X 198 ft)

If u do the conversion, 1 hectare (10,000 sqm) to sft should give you 107,643 sft (10,000/0.0929 or 10,000 X 10.7643)

so working with these:-

107,643/43,560 = 2.4711