An hour is 60 minutes and if a quarter has passed after the hour then that means 15 minutes have passed past the hour.
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One hour = 60 minutes. Quarter hour = 15 minutes.Quarter [hour] to the hour = 15 minutes to the hour. OR start with the hour, say 1:00 PM. in fifteen minutes it will be a quarter after the hour. At thirty minutes it will be half past the hour. In forty five minutes it will be a quarter ( fifteen minutes) TO the next hour or a quarter to 2:00 PM.
15 minutes. Each hour can be broken down into 4 quarters. 15 minutes after the hour is "a quarter past," and 15 minutes before the hour is "a quarter to." A On an digital clock, this would read (for example) 1:45 and it would be " a quarter to 2"
Quarter to means 15 minutes before the hour; e.g. 5:45 Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour; e.g. 16:15
An hour is 60 minutes and if a quarter has passed after the hour then that means 15 minutes have passed past the hour.
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One hour = 60 minutes. Quarter hour = 15 minutes.Quarter [hour] to the hour = 15 minutes to the hour. OR start with the hour, say 1:00 PM. in fifteen minutes it will be a quarter after the hour. At thirty minutes it will be half past the hour. In forty five minutes it will be a quarter ( fifteen minutes) TO the next hour or a quarter to 2:00 PM.
15 minutes. Each hour can be broken down into 4 quarters. 15 minutes after the hour is "a quarter past," and 15 minutes before the hour is "a quarter to." A On an digital clock, this would read (for example) 1:45 and it would be " a quarter to 2"
Each hour is 60 minutes. Therefore a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes.But, if it is a quarter to the hour, it is 15 minutes to the hour.For instance: 9.45 am is a quarter to 10 or 15 minutes to 10am. Or it could be 45 minutes past nine!
Quarter to means 15 minutes before the hour; e.g. 5:45 Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour; e.g. 16:15
Quarter past is an expression 15 minutes past the current hour. Each quarter of an hour is 15 minutes. So quarter past 10 is equal to 10:15.
It means a quarter of an hour before the next hour. You may also hear a quarter after (15 minutes after the hour) and half past the hour (30 minutes after the hour).
quarter past seven 60 minutes = 1 hour 60 x 1/4 = 15 minutes = quarter hour
Hourly fractions are minutes (1/60th), and seconds (1/3600th). Also, common time references are quarters (quarter of, quarter to, or quarter past the hour) and halves (half past the hour).