How many hours and minutes in eight days?

Answer 1

The question you ask is a little ambiguous, as I will explain.

There are 24 hours in a single day. In 8 days, there are 8 lots of 24 hours. We can represent this using a multiplication :

Hours in 8 days = 8 x 24

We can carry out this multiplication most easily by splitting 24 into two parts :

24 = 20 + 4

So we then get :

Hours in 8 days = 8 x 20 added to 8 x 4

So we get 160 added to 32 which comes to 192 hours.

So there are 192 hours in 8 days.

The reason why I said your question was ambiguous is that there were no left over minutes - there are exactly 192 hours in 8 days.

If you also wanted to know how many minutes there are in 8 days, then we should use another multiplication :

Minutes in 8 days = minutes in 192 hours = 192 x 60 (60 minutes each hour)

This is a more complex multiplication :

There are 11,520 minutes in 8 days.