What would 1 second be as a decimal?

Question

I don't know if that question sounds stupid, but we're dealing with the Distance = Rate x Time and the time was 1 second. so how do i turn that into a decimal? thanks!

Answer 1

it'd be easier if you posted the full question But I'll do my best.

It'd be written something like D=x(s)

so 1 second would be 1.0 or if 1=1 minute then it would be 1/60 or 0.16...

If you had the whole question I can help you more since this answer is a little vague.

Answer 2

thats not a stupid question if u learn from it. 1.0 would be the decimal for 1 second. good luck hun

Answer 3

well the fraction would be 1/60..... Soo.... 0.01666666(etc)? I failed fractions and decimals, but that's would make sense to me.

*reads other questions and edits*

Wow I fail. lol Sorry. :(

Answer 4

1.0

Answer 5

I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for.  If you need to express some number of seconds as a decimal number of minutes or hours, you can divide by 60 (for minutes) or 3600 (for hours).

Google can convert almost anything mathematical for you.  For example if you enter the Google query "seconds in 3 hours 5 minutes", it will tell you you're dealing with 11,100 seconds.  Going the other way, which is what it sounds like you might be doing, you can tell google "hours in 30 seconds" and it will dutifully spit back "30 seconds = 0.00833333333 hours".

If the "seconds" you're trying to convert are the kind that are one 3600th of an angular degree, such as are used for astronomy, navigation and global positioning (also known as "seconds of arc"), the rules are much the same, except that 60 seconds equal one minute and 60 minutes equal one degree of arc, instead of an hour.

Answer 6

1.00

Answer 7

Notation is annoying as everyone thinks it means something different, none of the research groups and professions agree on this.  Frankly I'm fond of how nuclear physicists seem to do it in Canada.  

I don't think most teachers make much sense of this either, not that I recall when I was in highschool anyway.  

Well if your dealing with experimental data you ussually use up to two decimal places for time.  So 1.00s but if you collected the data yourself you should use up to the number of decimal places of whatever you used to record the time with.  Like if your stop watch has only one decimal place it would be 1.0s.  

Answer 8

you really shouldn't have to because seconds is the standard form of it. It should be ok to do calculations with it just as 1

Answer 9

This question is very unclear, I'm not sure what you're going for.

A decimal is a sort of a fraction, expressed in tenths - like 0.1 is one-tenth of 1.  0.01 would be a hundredth.

What is a second a fraction of?  A fraction of a minute?

Distance, rate and time of what?  I'm not sure how that all factors in.

What type of math is this?

Answer 10

could be

1

1.0

1.00

1.000

and so forth.

i;m doing the D = r t

crud too.

just put 1, or 1 sec.

Answer 11

It really all depends on what part of time you are talking about.  One second is .01666666 of a minute, or do you need an hour, which is .0027777?  If the time you are looking for is in seconds, then use 1.0 as that would be in seconds.

Hope this helps, but you need to specify the time you are looking for.

Answer 12

you don't  need to make it a decimal in order to solve the problem.

just plug it in.

D = 1R

Answer 13

.01 =3

edit: omg i fail XD , ur doing D =R/T, my bad o,o