60 has many factors. So you can cut up a single hour into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12,
15, 20, or 30 equal pieces without the need to cut pieces from any minutes.
72 might also have been a good choice . . . it can be cut into 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12,
18, 24, or 36 equal pieces, without any fractions of minutes.
The disadvantage of 60 minutes is that it makes it a bit more complicated to add,
subtract, or multiply periods of time that include hours and minutes.
On several occasions, there have been movements promoting 'decimal' time.
If we changed to that kind of system, then you'd have, let's say, 10 new hours
in a day, 100 new minutes in an new hour, and 100 new seconds in a new minute.
That would make the new second roughly the same as the old second (0.864
of it), and it would be a lot easier to add, subtract, and multiply periods of time.
Parts of a day, an hour, or a minute would just be simple decimals, without all of
the clunky 12s, 24s, 60s and AM/PM that we wrestle with now.
These campaigns have never gone anywhere ... possibly related to the fact that
so many people in the US are so afraid of the Metric system, which offers exactly
the same type and scope of benefits.
12 minutes. 0.2 is equal to a fifth. There are 60 minutes in an hour, so 60 divided by 5 is 12.
60 minutes = 1 Hour 300 minutes divided by 60 minutes = 5 Hours
one hour has 60 minutes, therefore how many 60 go into 100. 100 divided by 60 is 1.667 hours, or 1 hour and 40 minutes.
1 hour = 60 minutes 488 divided by 60 = 8 hours 8 minutes
15 minutes.There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 divided by four (the quarters) equals 15.15 minutes.
12 minutes. 0.2 is equal to a fifth. There are 60 minutes in an hour, so 60 divided by 5 is 12.
they divided the day in 24 hours and the divided the hour into 60 minutes
60 minutes = 1 Hour 300 minutes divided by 60 minutes = 5 Hours
one hour has 60 minutes, therefore how many 60 go into 100. 100 divided by 60 is 1.667 hours, or 1 hour and 40 minutes.
70 miles per hour divided by 60 minutes = 1.166666 miles/minute 136 divided by 1.1666666 = 116.57143 minutes divided by 60 = 1 hour and 56.57 rounded to 57 minutes
Theres 60 minutes in a hour. 1200 minutes divided by 60 minutes = 20 hours
1 hour = 60 minutes 257 divided by 60 = 4 hours 17 minutes
1 hour = 60 minutes 488 divided by 60 = 8 hours 8 minutes
60 minutes = 1 hour 196 divided by 60 = 3 hours and 16 minutes
15 minutes.There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 divided by four (the quarters) equals 15.15 minutes.
4 (60 divided by 15)
5226000 minutes divided by 60 (minutes in an hour) = 87100 hours.