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 71.9 minutes into hours we have to multiply 71.9 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

71.9 min → T_(hr)

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

T_(hr) = 71.9 min × 0.016666666666667 hr

T_(hr) = 1.1983333333333 hr

The final result is:

71.9 min → 1.1983333333333 hr

We conclude that 71.9 minutes is equivalent to 1.1983333333333 hours:

71.9 minutes = 1.1983333333333 hours

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 0.83449235048679 × 71.9 minutes.

Another way is saying that 71.9 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 0.83449235048679 hours.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that seventy-one point nine minutes is approximately one point one nine eight hours:

71.9 min ≅ 1.198 hr

An alternative is also that one hour is approximately zero point eight three four times seventy-one point nine 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