Question
A student skipped a step when she tried to convert 26 hours into seconds and she got the following incorrect result: 26 hours (60 seconds/1 minute)=1560 seconds
What conversion ratio did she skip in this multiple-step conversion?
1 minute/60 seconds
60 seconds/1 hour
60 seconds/1 minute
1 hour/60 minutes
What conversion ratio did she skip in this multiple-step conversion?
1 minute/60 seconds
60 seconds/1 hour
60 seconds/1 minute
1 hour/60 minutes
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The student skipped the conversion ratio of **60 minutes/1 hour**.
To correctly convert 26 hours into seconds, the full conversion process involves the following steps:
1. Convert hours to minutes: 26 hours × (60 minutes/1 hour) = 1560 minutes
2. Convert minutes to seconds: 1560 minutes × (60 seconds/1 minute) = 93600 seconds
The student only performed the first multiplication concerning seconds per minute, thus skipping the necessary step of converting hours to minutes.
To correctly convert 26 hours into seconds, the full conversion process involves the following steps:
1. Convert hours to minutes: 26 hours × (60 minutes/1 hour) = 1560 minutes
2. Convert minutes to seconds: 1560 minutes × (60 seconds/1 minute) = 93600 seconds
The student only performed the first multiplication concerning seconds per minute, thus skipping the necessary step of converting hours to minutes.