Adding minutes and seconds to be multiplied by dollar amount

[LouLou]

Hi

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have googled and googled and asked everyone I know but can't seem to find the correct way to work out my problem.

I am an audio typist who is paid $1.80 per audio minute. All of the audio files are in minutes and seconds.

If I have the following audios:

1.22 (1 minute 22 seconds)
3.50 (3 minutes 50 seconds)
4.12 (4 minutes 12 seconds
10.56 (10 minutes 56 seconds)

How do I calculate the time in minutes and seconds and then how do I multiply that by $1.80?

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Hi

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have googled and googled and asked everyone I know but can't seem to find the correct way to work out my problem.

I am an audio typist who is paid $1.80 per audio minute. All of the audio files are in minutes and seconds.

If I have the following audios:

1.22
3.50
4.12
10.56

How do I calculate the time in minutes and seconds and then how do I multiply that by $1.80?

In your case,

Does 1.22 mean 1 minute and 22 seconds?

Or

Does 1.22 mean 1.22 minutes?

 

[LouLou]

In your case,

Does 1.22 mean 1 minute and 22 seconds?

Or

Does 1.22 mean 1.22 minutes?

Hi

1.22 is 1 minute and 22 seconds

 

[ksdhart2]

1.22 (1 minute 22 seconds)
3.50 (3 minutes 50 seconds)
4.12 (4 minutes 12 seconds
10.56 (10 minutes 56 seconds)

Here's a few questions to get you thinking in the right direction: How many seconds are in a minute? Then, how many seconds would 1 minute 22 seconds be? What would happen if you were to place that number as a numerator in a fraction with denominator 60 (i.e. you'd have [number]/60)? What would that represent?

If you get stuck again, that's okay, but please include all of your work when you reply, even if you know it's wrong. Thank you.

 

[Ishuda]

Hi

1.22 is 1 minute and 22 seconds

A different approach: Start by converting everything to seconds, i.e.
1.22 = 82 seconds.
Now add all the seconds together. After that convert back to minutes and seconds and use ksdhart2's formula, i.e
2.30 = (2 + 30/60) minutes = 2.50 minutes
and multiply 2.5 by $1.80