What fraction of an hour is 5 minutes?

Here we will illustrate what 5 minutes of an hour looks like on a pie chart, and also show you how to get 5 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 5 of those parts purple, to illustrate how much 5 minutes is of an hour.

$What fraction of an hour is 5 minutes?$

Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, and we want 5 minutes of an hour as a fraction, we simply put 5 over 60 to get our answer as follows:

5 over 60 = 5/60 = 1/12
5 minutes of an hour as fraction = 1/12

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