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?

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.

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’?