Welcome to time unit conversion! Time is measured using three main units: hours, minutes, and seconds. Understanding how to convert between these units is essential for solving time-related problems. Let's start by examining a clock, which shows all three units working together.
Now let's learn the basic conversion rules. One hour equals sixty minutes, and one minute equals sixty seconds. This means one hour equals three thousand six hundred seconds. We multiply by sixty to convert from larger to smaller units. This visual representation shows how one hour breaks down into sixty minutes, and further into three thousand six hundred individual seconds.
Let's practice converting to smaller units with an example. To convert two point five hours to minutes, we use the rule that one hour equals sixty minutes. We multiply two point five by sixty to get one hundred fifty minutes. This visual shows how the two and a half hour blocks transform into one hundred fifty individual minute blocks.
Now let's convert to larger units. To convert one hundred eighty minutes to hours, we divide by sixty since sixty minutes equal one hour. One hundred eighty divided by sixty equals three hours. The visual shows how we group every sixty minute blocks into one hour block, resulting in three hour blocks total.
Let's summarize time unit conversions. To convert to smaller units, we multiply: hours to minutes by sixty, minutes to seconds by sixty, and hours to seconds by three thousand six hundred. To convert to larger units, we divide by the same numbers. This conversion chart shows all the relationships between hours, minutes, and seconds. Remember these rules and you'll be able to solve any time conversion problem!