How do you work out how many minutes are there in 100 years?

Answer 1

The answer depends on how accurate you wish to be. The simple answer is to convert the number of years to days (*365), days to hours (*24) and hours to minutes (*60). If you were being more precise, you would adjust for leap years: in most centuries, there would be 24 but in every fourth century there would be 25.

Answer 2

Number of minutes in 100 years = 100 x 365.25 x 24 x 60 = 52,596,000 minutes. This is the same as 3,155,760,000 seconds. This one is slightly more tricky than it looks. Any 100 year period necessarily includes a century year. In general, any year that is divisible by 4 is a leap year - it has 366 days. If this were exactly true then a year could be expressed exactly by 365.25 days, and the answer above would be correct. However, although every century year is divisible by 4, it is not a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. So, if the 100 year period included the year 2000, the answer is 52,596,000 If the included century year were 1900 or 2100, the answer is 52,594,560

Answer 3

100 years = 52,594,876.6 minutes