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Time
This category is for questions about the methods humans go about measuring the passage of time. You can also find questions about converting one unit of time to another.
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How do rate the speed of a train to minutes?
Speed is expressed as a ratio of distance and time. The distance is usually measured in kilometers or miles. The length of time is usually one hour. Therefore, a vehicle could be travelling at, for example, 60 miles (distance) per hour (time). Suppose you want to convert the speed of the vehicle travelling at 60 miles per hour (m/hr), to find out how far the vehicle will travel in a different unit of time, for example a minute instead of an hour. All you have to do is convert the hour to minutes, and divide the speed by that number. Divide the speed (60) by the minutes in an hour hour (60) and the result is 1. In this example, the vehicle's speed is one mile per minute. (This was an easy example because, coincidentally, the vehicle is travelling at 60 m/hr and there are 60 minutes in an hour.)
How do you tell time on an analog clock?
Each second, the hour hand automatically moves a little toward the next number as the seconds and minutes' hands move. When it's at the end of an hour like 3:57, it may look like 2:57 because the hour hand is closer to the 1. It's because it's almost 4:00 and it's on it's way there but it's not actually pointing to 4:00 yet, but almost.
MinutesWhen the long hand points to the 1, it would mean 5 minutes after an hour, 2 would mean 10 minutes after an hour and so on. Each number, adds 5 minutes to the time.What about those other times like 3:27? Good question! If that happens, the minute hand will point in between some numbers. For 27 minutes, it will point in between the 5 and 6. Minutes like 21 will be between 4 and 5 but closer to 4 because it's closer to 20 instead of 25. When the long hand goes all the way around (360o) it would mean an hour has gone by.
Reading Hours and MinutesNow that you've read about how to read an analog clock, you know how to do it by hours and minutes! Go to an analog clock and see if you can tell the time from that clock!Yes. The PM is the leader of the party that wins the most seats in P.
How many seconds you should be looking down the road to avoid last minute moves?
15 to 20 seconds
(DMV CA state law)
How many days are in the first four months of 2009?
2009 was not a leap year. Therefore 31+28+31+30 is 120 days.
42 minutes plus 16 minutes 27 seconds?
answer in minutes AND seconds - 58 minutes and 27 seconds answer in seconds - 3,507 seconds
There are 24hrs in a day.
So subtract 24 from 33 and you get:
33-24 = 9
33hrs = 1 day and 9 hrs or
to convert it to a fraction
9/24 = 3/8
so 33hrs = 1 and 3/8 days
How do people long ago make calendars?
Well, the calender that we currently use today by de facto is a Gregorian Calender which was devised in the middle ages; but the Gregorian calender is heavily based on the Julian Calender constructed by Julius Cesar in 45BC.
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From smallest to largest:
second
hour (60 minutes, 3600 seconds)
day (24 hours)
week (7 days)
fortnight (14 days, from fourteen night)
month (28 to 31 days)
decade (10 years, 120 months)
century (10 decades, 100 years)
millennium (1000 years)
The only standard unit missing is the minute (60 seconds).
