Question

Find the number of minutes between \[17:53\] and \[7:26\]pm.

Answer 1

Hint:
Here, we will firstly convert \[17:53\] which is in 24 hour time format into the 12 hour time format. Then we will find the difference between the given times. Then we will convert all the hours into the minutes and add all the minutes to get the number of minutes between \[17:53\] and \[7:26\]pm.

Complete step by step solution:
Given is \[17:53\] and \[7:26\] pm.
Firstly we will convert the time given in the 24 hour time format i.e. \[17:53\] into the 12 hour time standard form. Therefore, we get
\[17:53 = 17:53 - 12:00 = 5:53\] pm
Now we will find the difference between the given two time i.e. \[5:53\] pm and \[7:26\]pm. Therefore we will subtract \[5:53\] pm from \[7:26\]pm, we get
Difference between \[5:53\] pm and \[7:26\]pm \[ = 7:26{\rm{pm}} - 5:53{\rm{pm}} = 1\,{\rm{hrs}}\,33\,{\rm{min}}\]
Now we will convert the number of hours into the minutes and then add all the minutes. We know that 1 hour is equal to 60 minutes. Therefore, we get
Number of minutes \[ = 1 \times 60 + 33 = 93\] minutes

Hence, there are 93 minutes between \[17:53\] and \[7:26\]pm.

Note:
Here, we should know the 12 hour time format and the 24 hour time format. In the 12 hour time format concept of the a.m. and p.m. is used. The term a.m. is ante meridiem which states that the time before midday and the term p.m. is post meridiem which states that the time after midday. We should also know the basic conversion of the time units i.e. there are 24 hours in a day, there is 60 minutes in an hour, there is an 60 seconds in a minute. Seconds is the smallest unit of the time. So we will convert the hours into the minutes by using this basic conversion.