Question

why one degree is 60 minutes but 60minutes is 360 degree?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 24 hours in one day and 60 minutes in one hour, equalling 24*60 = 1440 minutes in a day.

Now, you may know the fact that Earth has different timezones depending on the longitude that they lie on. These are measured starting from the Greenwich meridian and extend to +180° and -180° in the two directions of East and West respectively. This totals to 360°.

Now to calculate the time difference between two longitude separated by 1° is done by dividing the total number of minutes in a day, by the total angle covered in a day. i. e.

1440/360 = 4 minutes.

Now for the other minute.

The angular measure of degree can be sub divided into smaller parts known as minute, and the relationship that holds is:

1° = 60' = 60 minutes.

Another thing that can be derived from this is:

1° = 60 minutes = 4 minutes.

i. e. 15 minutes = 1 minute.