Conversion formula

The conversion factor from hours to minutes is 60, which means that 1 hour is equal to 60 minutes:

1 hr = 60 min

To convert 42.4 hours into minutes we have to multiply 42.4 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from hours to minutes. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 hr → 60 min

42.4 hr → T_(min)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in minutes:

T_(min) = 42.4 hr × 60 min

T_(min) = 2544 min

The final result is:

42.4 hr → 2544 min

We conclude that 42.4 hours is equivalent to 2544 minutes:

42.4 hours = 2544 minutes

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 minute is equal to 0.00039308176100629 × 42.4 hours.

Another way is saying that 42.4 hours is equal to 1 ÷ 0.00039308176100629 minutes.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that forty-two point four hours is approximately two thousand five hundred forty-four minutes:

42.4 hr ≅ 2544 min

An alternative is also that one minute is approximately zero times forty-two point four hours.

Conversion table

hours to minutes chart

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from hours to minutes