What fraction of a day is 12 hours?

Here we will illustrate what 12 hours of a day looks like on a pie chart, and also show you how to get 12 hours of a day as a fraction.

To make our pie chart below, we start by dividing the chart up into 24 green parts, because there are 24 hours in a day. Then, we color 12 of those parts orange, to illustrate how much 12 hours is of a day.

$What fraction of a day is 12 hours?$

Since there are 24 hours in a day, and we want 12 hours of a day as a fraction, we simply put 12 over 24 to get our answer as follows:

12 over 24 = 12/24 = 1/2
12 hours of a day as fraction = 1/2

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