Question

Antonio recorded the number of minutes he rode his bicycle each day leading up to his race. He knew he totalled 780 minutes for the week. After the race, he filled out a survey listing the total number of hours he had trained the last week.

What sort of problem best exemplifies this question?
a. estomation
b. significant figures
c. unit conversion
d. order of magnitude

Answer 1

He knew he totalled 780 minutes for the week
The problem that best exemplifies the question for this case in the conversion of units, since, Antonio must convert the amount of minutes he made to hours.
(780min) ((1h) / (60min)) = 13h
c. unit conversion