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Understanding Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds Conversion

what I want you guys to understand is this represents this is a decimal we have 37 degrees and then we have 0.25 of another degree right so we don't have another full degree we have 425 of another degree well in our decimal minutes and seconds what we do is we break down degrees rather than thinking of them as just you know 0 425 a degree we look at them into degrees minutes and seconds okay where there's a very important thing here as far as your degree you have your degrees which in this case was 37 however it's very important for you to understand that there's 60 Minutes in one degree and there's 60 seconds in one minute right remember the tags just go through this huh one line equal minute minute and seconds yep that's a minute 60 minutes and one degree so if you have one degree here these well that's not equivalent you'd have to multiply that by 60 but um I don't know WR equals but one degre is equivalent to these four right so if we we know that this is not equal to one degree right this is less than one degree so if I want to find how many minutes seconds what I'm simply going to do is take 425 and multiply that by 60 over 1 okay so when I do that when I multiply this 0.25 of a degree over 60 Minutes degree that's going to leave me with how many minutes are left correct so 425 * 60 that's equal to 25.5 so there's 34 or sorry 37° there's 25 minutes and now there's um 25 minutes and now there's 0 five of a minute right 0 five of a minute so sorry the degrees canceled out your left point so now we have 0 five a minute so 0 five a minute to find how many seconds there are you need to multiply five minutes times 60 seconds over 1 minute and that's going to be 5 * 60 is going to be 300 I write that oh 05 sorry that's 0 five so which is going to be 30 so that's going to equal 30 seconds okay what down there you go sorry yep okay and then you guys can convert it because in reality guys you're going to see problems that are going to be in decimal form and you're going to be see problems that during degre minute second form you're going to need to know how to go between the two and all you simply do is just multiply by 60 over1 60 over one really for each decimal because you know you have 37 degrees right now we just need to do the 0425 put that in minutes and seconds so you just keep on multiplying by 60 over one okay if you have a calculator I