What is 5 hours and 59 minutes as a decimal?

Here we will show you how to convert 5 hours and 59 minutes to decimal. In other words, 5 hours and 59 minutes as a decimal in terms of hours.

First, we need to find out how many total minutes there are in 5 hours and 59 minutes. To do that, we multiply 5 hours by 60 and then add 59 minutes. Here is the math to illustrate:

5 x 60 = 300
300 + 59 = 359

Then, to get our answer, we divide the total minutes we got above by 60 to get 5 hours and 59 minutes as a decimal in terms of hours:

359 / 60 ≈ 5.98

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 59 minutes as a decimal:

5 hours and 59 minutes
≈ 5.98 hours

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