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The time it takes for the earth to rotate once was broken into 24 parts.
This was done before people understood or knew about fractions. 24 was chosen because it was a convenient number with several factors. This was also the case when choosing minutes and seconds as subdivisions of an hour.
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How many hours and minutes in a day and night?
24 hours in a whole day and night 60 minutes in one hour, so 24x60 = 1,440 minutes.
How many days does one and one fourth equal?
There are 24 hours in a day/night. Therefore 1 1/4th is equal to 1 day and 6 hours or 24 + 6 = 30 hours.
How many hours an 2 half days?
There are 24 hours in a day and night.24 x 2.5 = 60 hours
Eleven hours is what fraction of one day?
Since a day has 24 hours, 11 hours is 11/24 of a day.
How much hours is one day?
there is 24 hours in a day
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