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Is it 15 minute or 15 minutes?

Is it 15 minute or 15 minutes?

Dear Amy Wang: The correct phrase is “15 minutes” not “15 min.” Note that “15 mins” is informal, and okay in a text to a friend, I guess, but not in an academic paper or something for work.

How is 15 minutes written?

Answer: 15 minutes, in the decimal form, is expressed as 0.25 hours.

Do you use min or mins?

5 mins” would be appropriate unless you are expressing it as an adjective then use the singular form, as in a five minute break or the ten minute mark. However, in scientific writing, the abbreviation for the units is always in the singular form – 5min, 5km, 5kg.

Is it 30 minute or 30 minutes?

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If there’s a 30-minute (hyphen) wait, you can expect to wait 30 minutes (no hyphen).

How do you hyphenate time?

For novels (fiction and non-fiction), the general rule is to spell out time. When expressing time in words instead of numerals, you should use a hyphen, as in five-fifteen. But when a hyphen is necessary in the expression of minutes, only hyphenate the minutes, as in five forty-five.

What is 15 minutes on a timecard?

What is 15 minutes on a timesheet

15 minutes 0.25 hours
30 minutes 0.50 hours
45 minutes 0.75 hours

How do you record in 15 minutes increments?

If you choose to round to 15-minute increments, you need to observe the 7-minute rule; for every 1 to 7 minutes that are rounded down, there is a corresponding timeframe of 8 to 14 minutes that are rounded up to the nearest quarter-hour and counted towards total work time.

Can minutes be plural?

The plural form of minute is minutes.

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Is it 10 min or 10 mins?

Yes, it is. “10 minute(s’)” is either “10 minutes'” or “10 minute”, the latter equals “ten-minute”.

Can you say mins?

The one for “Minute” is ‘min’. It is a unit of measure, which have standard abbreviations, and they do not change in plural nor have a final period. So, the correct abbreviation for minute(s) is “min”. My question is: why this discrepancy and not ‘hr’ in line with ‘min’?