How many days in 10000 minutes?

Answer 1

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.