8 minutes in seconds
Result
The conversion result is: 8 minutes is equivalent to 480 seconds.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 8 minutes to seconds?
We know (by definition) that: 1 min = 60 sec.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of seconds.
1 min / 8 min = 60 sec / x sec
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x sec = (8 min / 1 min) * 60 sec → x sec = 480 sec
Conclusion:
8 min = 480 sec
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 second is equal to 0.00208333333333333 times 8 minutes.
It can also be expressed as: 8 minutes is equal to 1 / 0.00208333333333333 seconds.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: eight minutes is about four hundred and eighty seconds, or alternatively, a second is about zero times eight 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.