24° 59' 60" is equivalent to how many degrees.

This question requires you to covert minutes and seconds to degrees
In the question we have 59 minutes and 60 seconds that needs to be converted.
1°=60 minutes
59 minutes = 59÷60
  =0.983333°
60 seconds = 1 minute 
1 minute  = 0.0166667°

So, 24° 59' 60" will be equal to


24°+0.983333°+0.0166667°= 24.9999997°

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