What is 5 hours and 42 minutes as a decimal?

Here we will show you how to convert 5 hours and 42 minutes to decimal. In other words, 5 hours and 42 minutes as a decimal in terms of hours.

First, we need to find out how many total minutes there are in 5 hours and 42 minutes. To do that, we multiply 5 hours by 60 and then add 42 minutes. Here is the math to illustrate:

5 x 60 = 300
300 + 42 = 342

Then, to get our answer, we divide the total minutes we got above by 60 to get 5 hours and 42 minutes as a decimal in terms of hours:

342 / 60 = 5.7

Note that we multiplied and divided by 60 because there are 60 minutes in an hour. Once again, here is the answer to 5 hours and 42 minutes as a decimal:

5 hours and 42 minutes
= 5.7 hours

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