Question 118680
A surveyor measures an angle as 32 degrees 31' 30''
Write this measure as a decimal. 
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Convert minutes to degrees, 60 min in a degree
Convert seconds to degrees, 60*60 = 3600 sec in a degree
So we have:
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Degrees = 32 + {{{31/60}}} + {{{30/3600}}}
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Degrees = 32 + .516667 + .0083333
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Degrees = 32.525
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I'm sorry about the screw-up here, don't know that I was thinking; A