What percent of an hour is 1 minute?

Answer 1

There are sixty minutes to an hour, so conversion simply requires using basic algebra to determine the answer.

Conversion from one unit to another requires that we solve for x, given a, b, and c.

a x

----=----

b c

For converting one minute to an percent of an hour, we need to convert from a denominator of 60 to a denominator of 100.

1 x

----=----

60 100

Using cross multiplication yields the following equation:

60x = 100

To isolate x, we then divide by 60 on both sides:

60x = 100

/ 60 / 60

This gives us an answer of:

x = 1.666666...

Therefore, we can determine that one minute is 1.666...% (often rounded at two decimal places, or 1.67%) of one hour.