What is the ratio of 5 hours to 14 hours 10 minutes?
2 Answers
Explanation:
14 hours and 10 minutes is the same as
This means the ratio is:
Explanation:
To compare these values directly they need to be in the same units of measurement of time.
Notice that 10 minutes will divide exactly into 1 hour (60 minutes). So I choose the unit of measurement to be 10 minutes.
1 hour is 60 minutes which is 6 lots of 10 minutes.
So I hour is the a count of 6 units
14 hours to count of 10 minutes
Plus the 10 minutes from 14 hrs 10 min
5 hours to count of 10 minutes
Divide top and bottom by 5