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1. A basketball player makes $86 million a year. What is his salary per minute?
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1. A basketball player makes $86 million a year. What is his salary per minute? Show your work. Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can do this yourself.
1 years is 365.25 days;
1 day is 24 hours;
1 hour is 60 minutes.
Let assume that a year is 12 months 30 days each month.
Then the number of minutes in the year = 12 * 30 * 24 * 60 = 518400.
Now to answer your question, divide $86 millions by 518400 minutes.