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Determine the number of years in 8.35x10^6 in muntes

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Explanation:

ignoring "disturbances" like leap years (366 days) we can simply assume that 1 year has 365 days.

1 day has 24 hours.

and 1 hour has 60 minutes.

so, one year has

60×24×365 = 525,600 minutes.

which is

5.256×10⁵

the given number of minutes is

8.35×10⁶

which is (the power of 10 - if positive - tells us how many positions to move the decimal point to the right, and to the left is negative).

8.35×10⁶ = 8,350,000

how many years are these ?

8,350,000 / 525,600 = 8.35×10⁶ / 5.256×10⁵ =

= 8.35/5.256 × 10⁶/10⁵ = 8.35/5.256 × 10¹ =

= 83.5/5.256 = 15.88660578... years

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