how many days are in 2 million seconds?

Question

this question has to do with physics.

Answer 1

Every time a math problem is asking for how many time some fits into something this should give

you the idea that your going to need to divide. That division is going to need to be in the

same units, in the present problem everything needs to be express in seconds.

1) there for , you need FIRST to know how many seconds are in a day. :

in 1 minute there is 60 seconds

in 1 hour there are 60 minutes

that means that there is 60x60 seconds in 1 hour = 3600 seconds in 1 hour

and 1 day has 24 hours , therefore

that means that 1 day = 3600 x24=86,400 this is the number of seconds in a day

therefore 86,400 represents 1 day in seconds

2) the SECOND part will be to divide, to find out how many times 1 day in seconds fits in

2,000,000.

here it is , we will devide !

2,000,000 / 86,400 = 23.15 days

Answer 2

(2,000,000 seconds)     X     (1 minute)     X     (1 hour)     X     (1 day)    

                                       (60 seconds)       (60 minutes)       (24 hours)       

so, all you really have to do is divide 2,000,000 by the product of 60, 60, and 24

in other words,           (2,000,000) / (60*60*24) = 2,000,000 / 86,400 = 23.148 days ≈ 23 days

Answer 3

With ANY unit conversion problem all you need to do is multiply by 'One'.

Easy Peasy.

BUT, and this is a big but,

the hard part is to find the Right One !!

And sometimes you need to multiply by 'One' more than once.

The first thing to do is to set up a blank problem with spaces to multiply by one.

-- Remember that anything divided by something that is equal to it is = one.

2,000,000 s X ( ??? ) If the two ??? things are equal then it is times one.

( ??? )

The problem is to find two things that are equal to put in place of the ??? marks.

We also need to have seconds in the denominator

to cancel out the seconds in the original value.

And we want to get days in the numerator so the final answer has units of days.

Do we know two things with units of days and seconds that are equal?

Well I don't know the number of seconds in a day - do you?

So, it looks like we will need to multiply by one more than once.

I do know there are 60 seconds in a minute so I can use these as my 1st 'One'.

2,000,000 s X ( 1 min ) X ( ??? ) 1 min = 60 seconds

( 60 s ) ( ??? ) ==>> SO 1 min ÷ 60 seconds = one

Notice I put in a place to multiply by a different 'One' to do a second step.

If you know how many minutes in a day we can do it in one more step.

But I don't. I do know that there are 60 minutes in an hour.

2,000,000 s X ( 1 min ) X ( 1 hr ) X ( ??? ) now the minutes will cancel out

( 60 s ) ( 60 min ) ( ??? ) and we have hours

Last step uses 1 day is 24 hours long.

2,000,000 s X ( 1 min ) X ( 1 hr ) X ( 1 da ) now we are left with days

( 60 s ) ( 60 min ) ( 24 hr )

I am sure you can do the arithmetic.

p.s. There is a song about this that made it to the Billboard Charts!

"Live like we're dying" https://genius.com/Kris-allen-live-like-were-dying-lyrics

There is also a poem about it. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/86-400-seconds/

-- And If you are a theater geek you know how many minutes in a year - 525, 600.

From "Rent" the song "Seasons of Love".

http://www.metrolyrics.com/seasons-of-love-lyrics-rent.html

And one last thing.

Notice the symbols I used for seconds, minutes, hours, and days.

The abbreviation for seconds is sec. When you write in English and use an abbreviation

the abbreviations have a period at the end of them. Street - St. Road - Rd. Second - Sec.

BUT the SYMBOL for the units of seconds is 's', not sec, and there is no period.

Minute is min , hour is hr , and day is da --- no periods.

AND there is no s at the end for plurals. --- 60 seconds is 60 s --- 24 hours is 24 hr

Okay, okay, I am picky!

But that is the correct way for units according to international standards.

Answer 4

Hi Janique. This is a dimensional analysis question. In this case, you have seconds and days and need to convert between them.

There are 24 hours in a day. This means that the fraction 24 hours/1 day is equal to 1. You can multiply anything by 1 and not change its value. The same goes for the conversion factors, 1 hour / 60 minutes and 1 minute / 60 seconds

If you multiply 2,000,000 seconds (2 million seconds) by these conversion factors, you will change the seconds to days:

2,000,000 sec. x (1 min/60 sec.) x (1 hour/60 min) x (1 day / 24 hours)

The units in the numerator are seconds x minutes x hours x days while the units in the denominator are seconds x minutes x hours. The seconds, minutes, and hours cancel out since they are in both the numerator and denominator and all you are left with is days.

The answer is about 23 days.

Answer 5

60 seconds in a minute

60 minutes in an hour

24 hours in a day

60x60x24 seconds in a day = 86,400 seconds in one day

divide 2 million by 86,400 = 23.148148....= 23 days plus 3 5/9 hours