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Timekeeping 101
Minutes to Decimals
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Minutes to Decimals
• 4.35 hours in NOT 4 hours and 35 minutes. • Because time is a number system with 60 as
its base (not 100 based) the math is not that easy.
• In reality 4.35 hours is actually 4 hours and 21 minutes.
• The calculation is .35 x 60=21 minutes or 21÷60=.35.
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Tips
• It helps to think of the basic time conversions we know:
15 minutes is a quarter of an hour, .25 30 minutes is a half of an hour, .50 45 minutes is three quarters of an hour, .75 60 minutes is one hour, 1.00• See the Conversion Chart for all time
conversions