10 years is represented on a 24 hour clock how many hours would represent 7 days? And how many minutes would represent 7 days?

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10 years is represented on a 24 hour clock how many hours would represent 7 days? And how many minutes would represent 7 days?

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Let's write the given data,

Number of days in 10 years= 365×10+2=3652

Here, 2 is for - there will be at least two leap years. So total, 3652 days in 10 years. 

 

Step 2

For 3652 days represented in 24 hours.

Now, Number of hours for 7 days = x

3652 days - 24 hours7 days - x hours

Therefore, x=7×243652 hoursx=42913=0.046 hours

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