Question

What is one 1/5 of an hour in minutes

Answer 1

So first convert hours to minutes and we know that 1 hour is 60minutes.
So 1/5th of an hour would be one fifth of 60 mins right?
So to fnd what a certain fraction of a certain number is you have to multiply the numerator of the fraction by the number(60) and put it over the denominator (5).
So you get 1 multiplied by 60/5.Which is 60/5.
And we divide 60/5 to get 12.
So the answer is 12 minuets.
Hope this helps:)

Answer 2

Time can be calculated in so many ways, minutes and hours are the two basic units of time. One hour contains 60 minutes, hence the one-fifth time of an hour is 12 minutes.

Question is asked about changing the fifth part of an hour into minutes.

We know that,

1 hour contains 60 minutes.

Therefore,

$\begin{aligned}1\;\rm{hour}&=60\;\rm{minutes}\\\dfrac{1}{5}\;\rm{hour}&=\dfrac{60}{5}\;\rm{minutes}\\&=12\;\rm{minutes}\end{aligned}$

Thus,

1/5 of an hour is 12 minutes.

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