How do you turn degrees into minutes?

Question

Example problem

10 degrees = 40 minutes

Answer 1

Multiply the degrees by 4 because according to your example 10 degrees = 40 minutes so divide each side of the equation by ten that = 1 degree = 4 minutes. The ratio is thus 1 to 4 (.25 degrees = 1 minute).

Answer 2

I assume you're doing those annoying school worksheets that have pictures of clocks on them?

The face of the clock, because it is a circle, has 360 degrees. The clock is also divided into 12 regions by the 12 numbers. Each region is 360/12=30 degrees.
The minute hand goes all 360 degrees around the clock every hour. 60 minutes in an hour means that, for the minute hand, every minute is 360/60= 6 degrees.
This makes sense: In five minutes, the minute hand would travel 5*6=30 degrees. The minute hand travels from one number to the next number in 5 minutes, and the region between between numbers is 30 degrees.

The hour hand only moves from one number to the next in an hour, and we already know that each of those regions is 30 degrees. The hour hand therefore travels 30 degrees in 60 minutes, which makes each minute 30/60= half (1/2) a degree.
This also makes sense: the hour hand takes 12 hours to move around the whole 360 degrees of the clock face. There are 12*60=720 minutes in 12 hours, and that's exactly right if every minute moves the hour hand 1/2 a degree.

Answer 3

There are 60 minutes in a degree so multiply by 60. Your example seems to be wrong.

10 degrees = 10 x 60 = 600 minutes

Answer 4

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking... If you're refering to a round clock with rotating hands, then 1 minute = 6 degrees. The full circle would be 360 degrees and if you divide it by the 60 minutes you have 6 degrees per 1 minute. But I'm not positive this is what you are asking.

Answer 5

1 Degree contains 60 minutes, so 10 degrees =
10 X 60 = 600 minutes

Answer 6

1 degree is 60 minutes. And if you are talking of a clock face, the 12 hours equal 360 degrees and so an hour is 30 degrees in angle of the hour hand and an hour is 60 minutes in time.

Answer 7

Try this plan: since you know that 1 min = 60 degrees, the you just have to multiply out by 1:
1 degree x 1min/60 degrees = (1/60) minutes

Answer 8

Degrees and minutes are mostly used in time calculations and in geographic Lat/Long Calculations, I was a navigator for many years and been doing this for a long time, here is the solution,
1 degree = 60 minutes; and
1 minute = 60 seconds

Hence,
10 degrees = (60 x 10) minutes
10 degrees = 600 minutes

Check this out for your understanding,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=degrees+to+minutes

Hope this helps !!!

Answer 9

Just multiply by 60.
30.242 degrees is 1814.52 minutes.
To convert angle measure to degrees, minutes seconds is a different matter. Multiply the .242 by 60 to get 14.52 minutes. Now multiply the .52 times 60 to get 31.2 seconds. So
30.242 degrees is 30 degrees, 14 minutes, 31 seconds or
30º 14' 31''

Answer 10

A circle has 360 degrees.

1 degree = 60 arcminutes. This means that there are 60 minutes in each degree, and that a circle has 21600 minutes.

10 degrees does not, and never could, equal forty minutes.