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Here's a shmoopy question for you...

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Brian has left his skateboard leaning up against the wall in the hallway yet again.

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His mother trips over it every time it's at an angle of less than 36° 8'.

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If the angle of the skateboard measures 36.125°,

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what is its measurement in degrees, minutes, and seconds?

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1 degree = 60 minutes, and 1 minute = 60 seconds.

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Here are the potential answers...

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The question is asking whether we know what a degree, minute and second are...

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in circle terms... So... the 36 is just 36 and it stays the same --

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we should know this intuitively because 36 degrees is... 36 degrees...

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...but we can also look at the answer set -- they all start with 36. So leave that one alone.

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Move on to minutes. To convert the decimal

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part of degrees, we just multiply that number by 60 to get the partial degree or minutes.

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So if we take .125 and multiply it by 60... we get 7.5 minutes.

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If we wanna get rid of the decimal in the minutes -- that .5 thing --

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then we can state it in seconds. To do so, we again multiply by 60 and we get

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.5 times 60 which is... 30 seconds. So the fully converted figure is 36 degrees,

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7 minutes and 30 seconds... or answer B. B, as in... "Brian, you're grounded!"

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