Unit Converter
Conversion formula
The conversion factor from minutes to hours is 0.016666666666667, which means that 1 minute is equal to 0.016666666666667 hours:
1 min = 0.016666666666667 hr
To convert 12 minutes into hours we have to multiply 12 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from minutes to hours. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:
1 min → 0.016666666666667 hr
12 min → T(hr)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in hours:
T(hr) = 12 min × 0.016666666666667 hr
T(hr) = 0.2 hr
The final result is:
12 min → 0.2 hr
We conclude that 12 minutes is equivalent to 0.2 hours:
12 minutes = 0.2 hours
Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 5 × 12 minutes.
Another way is saying that 12 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 5 hours.
Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that twelve minutes is approximately zero point two hours:
12 min ≅ 0.2 hr
An alternative is also that one hour is approximately five times twelve minutes.
Conversion table
minutes to hours chart
For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from minutes to hours
minutes (min) | hours (hr) |
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13 minutes | 0.217 hours |
14 minutes | 0.233 hours |
15 minutes | 0.25 hours |
16 minutes | 0.267 hours |
17 minutes | 0.283 hours |
18 minutes | 0.3 hours |
19 minutes | 0.317 hours |
20 minutes | 0.333 hours |
21 minutes | 0.35 hours |
22 minutes | 0.367 hours |