Question

Write a program that starts with seconds (provided by the user) and then displays that value converted to full hours, minutes and seconds.

Sample Run:
Give me any amount of seconds: 356442 99 hours, 0 minutes, 42 seconds.

Answer 1

To convert a total number of seconds to mixed units of time, you divide the seconds by 3600 to get hours, divide the remainder by 60 to get minutes, and then use the final remainder to represent seconds, resulting in a conversion like 99 hours, 0 minutes, and 42 seconds for 356442 seconds.

Step-by-step explanation:

When converting seconds to hours, minutes, and seconds, we utilize various time conversion factors. For example, there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. To convert an amount of time given in seconds to hours, minutes, and a remaining number of seconds, you need to perform division and modulo operations.

Here's a step-by-step approach:

1. Divide the total number of seconds by 3600 (the number of seconds in an hour) to get the full hours.
2. Take the remainder of that division and divide by 60 to get the full minutes.
3. Take the remainder of the second division to get the remaining seconds.

For instance, let's convert 356442 seconds:

• 356442 seconds / 3600 seconds/hour = 99 hours
• Remainder: 442 seconds / 60 seconds/minute = 7 minutes (rounded down)
• Remainder: 42 seconds

This gives us the final converted time of 99 hours, 0 minutes, and 42 seconds.