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 42 minutes into hours we have to multiply 42 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

42 min → T_(hr)

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

T_(hr) = 42 min × 0.016666666666667 hr

T_(hr) = 0.7 hr

The final result is:

42 min → 0.7 hr

We conclude that 42 minutes is equivalent to 0.7 hours:

42 minutes = 0.7 hours

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 1.4285714285714 × 42 minutes.

Another way is saying that 42 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 1.4285714285714 hours.

Approximate result

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

42 min ≅ 0.7 hr

An alternative is also that one hour is approximately one point four two nine times forty-two 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