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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Radio 1 maths question for the day |
OK, a question for you all from Radio 1. I managed to work it out in my head in about 30 seconds and was very chuffed so I thought I'd pass it on and see if anyone else can get it. Q: Which is the greater number? The number of seconds in a week or the number of minutes in a year? Obviously you could use a calculator to work out what each one is but how would you do it in your head? 
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Radio 1 maths question for the day |
Who needs a calculator? Shove "1 week into seconds" into Google for an instant answer. 
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Radio 1 maths question for the day |
I did it without actually working out how many seconds or minutes there are in the time periods. I first thought that seconds in a week is 60 x 60 x 24 x 7 and the first thing for working out minutes in a year is 60 x blah. so remove 60 from both. i.e. seconds = 60 x 24 x 7 minutes = 24 x 7 x 52 (weeks in a year) 60 x 24 x 7 is more than 52 x 24 x 7
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:47 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Radio 1 maths question for the day | |||||||||
You can do it a lot quicker eliminating hours, days and anything else unneeded 60 seconds in a minute seconds in a week = minutes in a week *60 minutes in a year = 52 * minutes in a week there are 52 (which is smaller than 60) so the number of seconds in a week is larger than minutes in a year |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:49 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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LOL, true. Was driving at the time and didn't think of that
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