Question

Question
A student skipped a step when she tried to convert 26 hours into seconds,
and she got the following incorrect result:
60 seconds
26 hours
1 minute
= 1560 seconds
What conversion ratio did she skip in this multiple-step conversion?
a.)1 hour/60 minutes
b.)1 minutes/ 60 seconds
c.)60 minutes/1 hour
d.)60 seconds/1 minute​

Answer 1

The student skipped the conversion mentioned in option A i.e. 1 hour/60 minutes.

• To convert 26 hours into seconds, the student will have to proceed step by step.
• First she would have to state that 1 minute has 60 seconds, then 1 hour has 60 minutes, then the given number of hours is 26, therefore the time in seconds will be as follows: 60*60*26 = 93600 seconds.
• She followed all the steps except the one in which hours is converted into 60 minutes due to which she got incorrect results from her calculations.