We can use dimensional analysis the answer this question. The first thing we need to do is figure out how many minutes are in a day. To do this, we start with the fundamentals:
60 minutes per hour
24 hours per day
We then use dimensional analysis:
10,000 minutes | 1 hour ___| 1 day
--------------------|---------------|-------------
____________| 60 minutes | 24 hours
(please ignore the underscores, as wikianswers erases excess spaces)
Which translates to:
10,000 / 60 / 24 = 6.94444... days
If you don't know what dimensional analysis is, the key thing is that if you divide minutes by minutes, they cancel each other out. So we have minutes * (hour / minutes) * (day / hours) The minutes and hours cancel each other out, leaving only the days.
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