What fraction of an hour is 20 minutes?

Here we will illustrate what 20 minutes of an hour looks like on a pie chart, and also show you how to get 20 minutes of an hour as a fraction.

To make our pie chart below, we start by dividing the chart up into 60 orange parts, because there are 60 minutes in an hour. Then, we color 20 of those parts purple, to illustrate how much 20 minutes is of an hour.

$What fraction of an hour is 20 minutes?$

Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, and we want 20 minutes of an hour as a fraction, we simply put 20 over 60 to get our answer as follows:

20 over 60 = 20/60 = 1/3
20 minutes of an hour as fraction = 1/3

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