Question

Unit of Measurement, a punk/disco band, was signed up to play a benefit concert for New Year's Eve. They started at 6:00 pm on New Year's Eve and managed to play until 9:00 am the morning of January 2. To figure out how many minutes they were on stage, what is the conversion ratio you should use?

A.60 Minutes/1 Hour
B.60 Minutes/1 Second
C.60 Seconds/1 Minute
D.1 Hour/60 Minutes

Answer 1

The answer would be A, because you would start with hours in the numerator so your conversion needs hours in the denominator and minutes in the numerator to end with minutes

Answer 2

A.60 Minutes/1 Hour

Explanation:

New Year's Eve = December 31st

They started playing at 6:00 pm till 2 January 9:00 am

So, till 1st January 6:00 pm they played for 24.

From 1st January 6:00 pm to 2nd January 6:00 am they played for 12 hours

From 6:00 am to 9:00 pm on 2nd January they played for 3 hours

So, total time they played = 24+12+3 = 39 hours

Converting to minutes

`39* (60\ Minutes)/(1\ Hour)=2340\ Minutes`

So, 60 Minutes/1 Hour conversion ratio should be used.