Question #e1b17

2 Answers
Aug 22, 2017

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

Let's call the number of hours we are looking for: h

And, let's call the number of mins: m

Because there are 60 minutes in an hour we can write the equation for h as:

h = m/60

So, if you had color(red)(60) minutes you could substitute this for color(red)(m) and solve for h giving:

h = color(red)(60)/60

h = 1

Aug 22, 2017

m/60 hours in m minutes

Explanation:

We know there are 60 min in 1 hour ... 60 min= 1 hr
So there are 60h min in h hours .... 60h min = h hours
So there are 60h minutes in h hours.
Now, to reverse this to get hours in m minutes
Start again with
60 min = 1 hr
60m min = m hr
m min = m/60 hr
So there are m/60 hours in m minutes

Check
If m=60 minutes
60 min = 60/60 hr = 1 hr
Checks ok