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 5 minutes into hours we have to multiply 5 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
5 min → T(hr)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in hours:
T(hr) = 5 min × 0.016666666666667 hr
T(hr) = 0.083333333333333 hr
The final result is:
5 min → 0.083333333333333 hr
We conclude that 5 minutes is equivalent to 0.083333333333333 hours:
5 minutes = 0.083333333333333 hours
Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 12 × 5 minutes.
Another way is saying that 5 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 12 hours.
Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that five minutes is approximately zero point zero eight three hours:
5 min ≅ 0.083 hr
An alternative is also that one hour is approximately twelve times five 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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6 minutes | 0.1 hours |
7 minutes | 0.117 hours |
8 minutes | 0.133 hours |
9 minutes | 0.15 hours |
10 minutes | 0.167 hours |
11 minutes | 0.183 hours |
12 minutes | 0.2 hours |
13 minutes | 0.217 hours |
14 minutes | 0.233 hours |
15 minutes | 0.25 hours |