SOLUTION: Write an expression for the number of hours in an unknown number of seconds

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Question 23658: Write an expression for the number of hours in an unknown number of seconds
Answer by rapaljer(4671) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let x = an unknown number of seconds.

Since hours is a larger unit, there will be less hours than seconds. For example, if there are 120 seconds, how would you change this to minutes? Answer smaller to larger units means to divide by 60 since there are 60 seconds in a minute. 120 seconds would be 120/60 = 2 minutes.

Now, back to your problem. There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, so there are 3600 seconds in 1 hour.

So to convert from seconds to hours, you'll have to divide by 3600.

x seconds = x%2F3600+ hours, so there are x%2F3600 hours in x seconds.

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