One minute is $1/60$ of an hour. What part of an hour is 12 minutes?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-08T15:33:14

$12/60$

If one minute in an hour is represented as $1/60$ then 12 minutes in an hour is $12/60$ , since each minute will add towards $60/60$ .

25 minutes would be $25/60$ and so on.

Answer 2 · 2018-03-08T15:35:06

$1/5" hour "$

$"1 minute " to 1/60" hour"$

$"12 minutes "tocancel(12)^1xx1/cancel(60)^5=1/5" hour"$

One minute is 1/601/60 of an hour. What part of an hour is 12 minutes?