72 minutes in hours

Result

The conversion result is: 72 minutes is equivalent to 1.2 hours.[1]


Conversion formula
How to convert 72 minutes to hours?

We know (by definition) that: 1 min ≈ 0.016666667 hr.

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of hours.

1 min / 72 min ≈ 0.016666667 hr / x hr

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:

x hr ≈ (72 min / 1 min) * 0.016666667 hr x hr ≈ 1.200000024 hr

Conclusion:

72 min ≈ 1.200000024 hr


Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 hour is equal to 0.833333333333333 times 72 minutes.

It can also be expressed as: 72 minutes is equal to 1 / 0.833333333333333 hours.


Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: seventy-two minutes is about zero hours, or alternatively, a hour is about zero point eight three times seventy-two minutes.



Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.