To work this out, you first have to convert the hour into minutes so we have consistent units. There are 60 minutes in an hour. So the question can be states as "what fraction of 60 minutes is 10 minutes." This is 10/60. That can then be simplified to 1/6
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-- One hour = 60 minutes. -- A fraction of an hour is the same fraction of 60 minutes. -- To convert a fraction of an hour to minutes, multiply the fraction by 60 minutes.
Ten hours is not a fraction of one minute. Ten hours is six hundred minutes. One minute is one six-hundredth of ten hours.
The fraction is 1.
One hour is 60 minutes so 30 minutes is one-half of an hour.
15 minutes is one quarter of an hour.