How to Convert Minutes to Hours and Minutes, Alternate Method
- divide the minutes by 60
- if the result is a number with a decimal part, then
- the hours is the integer part
- the minutes is the decimal part multiplied by 60
How do you calculate a fraction of an hour?
- Start with your number of minutes. You can do this a few different ways.
- Multiply by "1 hour/60 minutes." Next, write (or type) a multiplication sign (×), then the fraction 1 hour/60 minutes.
- Solve.
- Multiply by 60 to get back to minutes.
- If your measurement is in hours and minutes, just deal with the minutes.
How do you calculate minutes?
- divide the minutes by 60.
- if the result is a number with a decimal part, then.
- the hours is the integer part.
- the minutes is the decimal part multiplied by 60.
What is 20 minutes as a fraction?
What fraction of a day is 20 minutes? There are 60 minutes in a hour. There are 24 hours a day. Hence, there are 1,440 minutes in a day, as 24 hours of 60 minutes is 1440 minutes (24x60=1440). 20 minutes out of a day or 1440 minutes is 1/72 (20/1440 = 1/72). The fraction representation is 1/72.
What is 4 hours and 15 minutes as a decimal?
To convert to decimal hours, add (minutes ÷ 60) to the hours number. So, 4 hours 15 minutes is 4 + 15 ÷ 60 = 4.25 hours. To convert to minutes, simply multiply the hours by 60 and add the minutes. So, 4 × 60 + 15 = 255 minutes.
How to divide minutes into fractions?
Simply divide the number of minutes by sixty, and leave the remainder as a fraction. For example, 127 minutes is two hours and seven minutes 127/60=2 7/60.
How to get minutes from an hour?
Taking an hours measurement and multiplying it by 60 will get you minutes again. Technically, you're multiplying by 60 minutes/1 hour so that the two "hours" cancel properly. In our example, multiplying 2.5 hours × 60 minutes/1 hour = 150 minutes — exactly what we started with.
How long is 150 minutes?
Now you just need to do the math. The answer you get will be the number of hours you're looking for. In our example, 150 minutes × 1 hour/60 minutes = 2.5 hours, or 2 1/2 hours. This is the same as 150 divided by 60 or 150/60.
How to change minutes to hours?
As a general rule, dividing your number of minutes by 60 will give you the same time in hours. This is because there are exactly 60 minutes in an hour.
How to write minutes?
1. Start with your number of minutes. You can do this a few different ways. For example, if you're working on paper, you might write down the number of minutes and label it with the word "minutes.". If you're using a calculator, just type in the number.
What is the ratio of 40 minutes to 90 minutes?
It is the ratio of 40 minutes to 90 minutes. 40:90 = 4:9.
How long is 4.33 hours?
In our example, our first answer was 4.33 hours. We just found out that the ".33" part is equal to 20 minutes, so we would write our answer as 4 hours 20 minutes.
Why are caluclations off?
Without converting the minutes to hundredths, the caluclations can be off because an hour contains 60 minutes and regular calculations done on a calculator are displayed in units of 100.
Can you convert 1/60 hours to 1/100 hours?
There is No Error: the problem is that 1/60 hr cannot be easily nor perfectly converted into 1/100 hr.
