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SAT Math 1.3 Numbers and Operations
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SAT Math 1.3 Numbers and Operations. x and y must be which of the following?

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All You Need to Know about Converting Time 220 Views


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Thank you We sneak Ah forced conversion allah shmoop we're

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sure you've noticed how slowly the hands of a clock

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can move sometimes Well this phenomenon hasn't escaped veronica little

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house either it's especially painful when she has something to

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look forward to after the final bell rings like last

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friday when she had to suffer through the latter half

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of a school day all the while knowing that she'd

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be a katy perry concert later that evening At one

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point you looked up and saw that it was in

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forty five her last class didn't end until three forty

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five so basically not until forever Okay so it was

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five hours but an hour is like so long Five

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hours sounded like an eternity that's when her friend petunia

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got her a little trick by converting hours minutes it

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wouldn't sound so bad because a minute is so short

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by thinking about the time left in those terms did

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seem totally manageable Okay so veronica knew there were sixty

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minutes in an hour She set up her problem in

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a fraction form There are sixty minutes to everyone our

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so sixty over one now because they were five hours

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left she could take five and multiplied by her fraction

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to get three hundred over one meaning that there were

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three hundred minutes left in that one day Wait a

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minute That sounds even worse Veronica didn't want to wait

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three hundred of anything to high tail it out of

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there She was never going to forget petunia for this 00:01:21.79 --> [endTime] one i wonder how many minutes that would be

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