Question

What fraction of an hour is 24 minutes?
Give your answer in its simplest form

Answer 1

Explanation:

I hour = 60 minutes

So x hours = 24 minutes

to find x-->

Using the ratio method,

`(1)/(60)` =
`(x)/(24)`

where x is the unknown number of hours we have to find.

After solving it, we get 60 * (x) = 24

we get x= 24/60

x= 0.4 hours

Hence, 24 mins is 4/10 of an hour.

In the simplest form--> x= 2/5