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Example 7.46 from Prealgebra, 7.5 Systems of Measurement
Juliet is going with her family to their summer home. She will be away for weeks. Convert the time to minutes.
Work it out on paper first. Then open the solution one step at a time, and stop as soon as you can finish on your own.
To convert weeks into minutes, we will convert weeks to days, days to hours, and then hours to minutes. To do this, we will multiply by conversion factors of
| Write 1 as . | |
| Cancel common units. | |
| Multiply. | |
| Juliet will be away for 90,720 minutes. |
The book's Try It right after this example: same idea, new numbers. Only the answer is given.
The distance between Earth and the moon is about miles. Convert this length to yards.
How did it go?