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 17 minutes into hours we have to multiply 17 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
17 min → T(hr)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in hours:
T(hr) = 17 min × 0.016666666666667 hr
T(hr) = 0.28333333333333 hr
The final result is:
17 min → 0.28333333333333 hr
We conclude that 17 minutes is equivalent to 0.28333333333333 hours:
17 minutes = 0.28333333333333 hours
Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 3.5294117647059 × 17 minutes.
Another way is saying that 17 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 3.5294117647059 hours.
Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that seventeen minutes is approximately zero point two eight three hours:
17 min ≅ 0.283 hr
An alternative is also that one hour is approximately three point five two nine times seventeen 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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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 |
23 minutes | 0.383 hours |
24 minutes | 0.4 hours |
25 minutes | 0.417 hours |
26 minutes | 0.433 hours |
27 minutes | 0.45 hours |