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Conversion formula

The conversion factor from minutes to seconds is 60, which means that 1 minute is equal to 60 seconds:

1 min = 60 s

To convert 8 minutes into seconds we have to multiply 8 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from minutes to seconds. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 min → 60 s

8 min → T(s)

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

T(s) = 8 min × 60 s

T(s) = 480 s

The final result is:

8 min → 480 s

We conclude that 8 minutes is equivalent to 480 seconds:

8 minutes = 480 seconds

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 second is equal to 0.0020833333333333 × 8 minutes.

Another way is saying that 8 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 0.0020833333333333 seconds.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that eight minutes is approximately four hundred eighty seconds:

8 min ≅ 480 s

An alternative is also that one second is approximately zero point zero zero two times eight minutes.

Conversion table

minutes to seconds chart

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

minutes (min) seconds (s)
9 minutes 540 seconds
10 minutes 600 seconds
11 minutes 660 seconds
12 minutes 720 seconds
13 minutes 780 seconds
14 minutes 840 seconds
15 minutes 900 seconds
16 minutes 960 seconds
17 minutes 1020 seconds
18 minutes 1080 seconds