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 0.5 minutes into hours we have to multiply 0.5 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
0.5 min → T(hr)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in hours:
T(hr) = 0.5 min × 0.016666666666667 hr
T(hr) = 0.0083333333333333 hr
The final result is:
0.5 min → 0.0083333333333333 hr
We conclude that 0.5 minutes is equivalent to 0.0083333333333333 hours:
0.5 minutes = 0.0083333333333333 hours
Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 120 × 0.5 minutes.
Another way is saying that 0.5 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 120 hours.
Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that zero point five minutes is approximately zero point zero zero eight hours:
0.5 min ≅ 0.008 hr
An alternative is also that one hour is approximately one hundred twenty times zero point 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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1.5 minutes | 0.025 hours |
2.5 minutes | 0.042 hours |
3.5 minutes | 0.058 hours |
4.5 minutes | 0.075 hours |
5.5 minutes | 0.092 hours |
6.5 minutes | 0.108 hours |
7.5 minutes | 0.125 hours |
8.5 minutes | 0.142 hours |
9.5 minutes | 0.158 hours |
10.5 minutes | 0.175 hours |