How many hours in 7200 minutes?

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 7200 minutes into hours we have to multiply 7200 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

7200 min → T_(hr)

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

T_(hr) = 7200 min × 0.016666666666667 hr

T_(hr) = 120 hr

The final result is:

7200 min → 120 hr

We conclude that 7200 minutes is equivalent to 120 hours:

7200 minutes = 120 hours

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 0.0083333333333333 × 7200 minutes.

Another way is saying that 7200 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 0.0083333333333333 hours.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that seven thousand two hundred minutes is approximately one hundred twenty hours:

7200 min ≅ 120 hr

An alternative is also that one hour is approximately zero point zero zero eight times seven thousand two hundred 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)
7201 minutes	120.017 hours
7202 minutes	120.033 hours
7203 minutes	120.05 hours
7204 minutes	120.067 hours
7205 minutes	120.083 hours
7206 minutes	120.1 hours
7207 minutes	120.117 hours
7208 minutes	120.133 hours
7209 minutes	120.15 hours
7210 minutes	120.167 hours

Conversion units

The units involved in this conversion are minutes and hours. This is how they are defined:

Minute

The minute is a unit of time or of angle. As a unit of time, the minute (symbol: min) is equal to 1⁄60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system). As a unit of angle, the minute of arc is equal to 1⁄60 of a degree, or 60 seconds (of arc). Although not an SI unit for either time or angle, the minute is accepted for use with SI units for both. The SI symbols for minute or minutes are min for time measurement, and the prime symbol after a number, e.g. 5′, for angle measurement. The prime is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time. In contrast to the hour, the minute (and the second) does not have a clear historical background. What is traceable only is that it started being recorded in the Middle Ages due to the ability of construction of "precision" timepieces (mechanical and water clocks). However, no consistent records of the origin for the division as 1⁄60 part of the hour (and the second 1⁄60 of the minute) have ever been found, despite many speculations.

Source: Wikipedia Topic: minute

Hour

An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr.) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and scientifically reckoned as 3,599–3,601 seconds, depending on conditions. The seasonal, temporal, or unequal hour was established in the ancient Near East as 1⁄12 of the night or daytime. Such hours varied by season, latitude, and weather. It was subsequently divided into 60 minutes, each of 60 seconds. Its East Asian equivalent was the shi, which was 1⁄12 of the apparent solar day; a similar system was eventually developed in Europe which measured its equal or equinoctial hour as 1⁄24 of such days measured from noon to noon. The minor variations of this unit were eventually smoothed by making it 1⁄24 of the mean solar day, based on the measure of the sun's transit along the celestial equator rather than along the ecliptic. This was finally abandoned due to the minor slowing caused by the Earth's tidal deceleration by the Moon. In the modern metric system, hours are an accepted unit of time equal to 3,600 seconds but an hour of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) may incorporate a positive or negative leap second, making it last 3,599 or 3,601 seconds, in order to keep it within 0.9 seconds of universal time, which is based on measurements of the mean solar day at 0° longitude.

Source: Wikipedia Topic: hour