Math Question (Time-Based)

[AlexIsHere13]

I'm making a game, and I need to know something.

If 79.5 years were to pass in a single week, then how long would one year be?

[vascop]

OK, so were you absent the day they did multiplication at school?

[trt]

Maths.

[webbo3]

Im guessing the OP may be American aS they used the word math and not maths.


Dave.

[elliemay1]

4 134

[stuey]

By ratio. Change all the times to hours. Then 79.5 years (in hours) is to one week( in hours) as one year (in hours) is to X. Keep in mind a lot of British people have a hissy fit if you say "math" instead of "maths":)

[aelmpvw]

then again, leap years complicate matters :-)

[stuey]

I didn't want to bring that up, aelmpvw:)

[New Judge]

Not so complex. Simply divide the number of hours in a week (168) by 79.5 (answer is 2.113208 hours)

You can do the same in minutes (10,080) if it makes it easier (answer is 126.7925 mins).

It is “maths”, by the way (short for mathematics). :-)

[stuey]

Yabbut, "math" is a shorter abbreviation that "maths"; therefore, ergo, three dots, a much more efficient abbreviation.

[Togo]

1 year is 8766 hours.so I week is 8766 divided 52.1785714=168.000000092 hours. divided by 79.5 = 2.1132075483 hours. 2HRS 6MINS 47SECS. I think

[New Judge]

If you make an allowance for Leap Years (assuming a year to be 365.25 days, which is near enough) the answers are 2.121326 hours or 126.8793 mins.

[Zacs-Master]

I would have done it NJs way. No need to work out hours in a year.

[stuey]

I'm not even going to attempt it, Zacs, coz I aint no good at ariths.

[Zacs-Master]

Or is it Arith?

[Togo]

The Brits always did the adding up bit for our cousins.

[stuey]

Good point:)

[stuey]

My response was for Zacs, but it also applies to you, Togo:)

[fiction-factory]

Unless the question is looking at it the other way round so the answer would be 79.5 *365/7 = 4145.4years

[Togo]

Ha ha ff. Time flies. It is now your responsibility to convert that decimal answer to Years, Months, Weeks, Days, Hours, Mins and Secs.

[ToraToraTora]

what we are doing here is barely Math or maths but simple arithmetic,