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 240 minutes into hours we have to multiply 240 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
240 min → T(hr)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in hours:
T(hr) = 240 min × 0.016666666666667 hr
T(hr) = 4 hr
The final result is:
240 min → 4 hr
We conclude that 240 minutes is equivalent to 4 hours:
240 minutes = 4 hours
Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 0.25 × 240 minutes.
Another way is saying that 240 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 0.25 hours.
Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that two hundred forty minutes is approximately four hours:
240 min ≅ 4 hr
An alternative is also that one hour is approximately zero point two five times two hundred forty 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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241 minutes | 4.017 hours |
242 minutes | 4.033 hours |
243 minutes | 4.05 hours |
244 minutes | 4.067 hours |
245 minutes | 4.083 hours |
246 minutes | 4.1 hours |
247 minutes | 4.117 hours |
248 minutes | 4.133 hours |
249 minutes | 4.15 hours |
250 minutes | 4.167 hours |