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Reason Do you multiply or divide if you want to change months to years? or Multiply or Divide

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Answer: Divide

Specifically, we divide by 12 to convert from months to years. This is because there are 12 months in a year.

For example, 36 months = 36/12 = 3 years.

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\begin{gathered} \text{You divide! Because if one year has 12 months! then } \\ \text{x months are x/12 years!} \end{gathered}

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