Time conversions.
Type a value, pick units
120
1 hour = 60 min
Going up and down the ladder
Each step is a fixed factor: ×60 from seconds to minutes, ×60 from minutes to hours, ×24 from hours to days. Going the other way, divide. To skip a rung, multiply the factors: 1 hour = 60 × 60 = 3,600 seconds.
Try it
How many minutes in 3 hours?
3 × 60 = 180 minutes.
Your turn
Convert 7,200 seconds to hours.
Recap
- 1 min = 60 s; 1 hr = 60 min = 3,600 s; 1 day = 24 hr = 86,400 s.
- Convert to a smaller unit → multiply. To a larger unit → divide.
- To skip a step, multiply the conversion factors together.
Conversions
- 1 min = 60 s
- 1 hr = 60 min = 3600 s
- 1 day = 24 hr = 86,400 s