24. If you said 12 for January 2nd, February 2nd, etc that’s close, but you forgot about January 22nd, February 22nd and so on. If you are a math whiz and didn’t need a calculator to perform 60 x 60 x 24 x 365, then 31,536,000 works too. If you used 365.25 to account for leap year, then you are a human calculator, but even that’s not entirely accurate due to the leap second. And even accounting for that, it’s only an approximation that there are 365.2422 days in a year.
I tend to work things out in my head by multiplying by an easier number that will get me close, then working from there.
I started from the number of seconds in a day, 86,400, then multiplied that in stages to get to 375 days, and so on.
86,400 x 5 = 432,000
432,000 x 5 = 2,160,000
2,160,000 x 5 = 10,800,000
10,800,000 x 3 = 32,400,000
32,400,000 – 864,000 = 31,536,000
31,536,000 + 21,600 = 31,557,600.
That’s where the 21,600 at the end comes in.
If you meant the .242 value for the overrun, then subtract (0.008 x 86,400), or (8 x 86.4).
31,557,600 – 691.2 = 31,556,908.8
If you meant the days in an actual leap year, then (31,536,000 + 86,400) = 31,622,400.
12 Seconds:
Jan 2nd (1)
Feb 2nd (2)
March 2nd (3)
April 2nd (4)
May 2nd (5)
June 2nd (6)
July 2nd (7)
Aug 2nd (8)
Sept 2nd (9)
Oct 2nd (10)
Nov 2nd (11)
Dec 2nd (12)
what percent of a year is 26 seconds? Obviously I am NOT so great with math :/
I know there is 31,556,926 seconds in a year so would I than divide 31,556,926*12= ??
Or is that the wrong way to set up the problem?? Thanks to anyone with insight!!
77 Comments on "Seconds in a Year"
Shalyn says
July 4, 2015 @ 06:45
To figure it out you would do 365days×24h×60min.×60 seconds soooo it would be 31,536,000
hi says
July 22, 2015 @ 20:36
24 seconds
Garth says
July 23, 2015 @ 00:39
I tend to work things out in my head by multiplying by an easier number that will get me close, then working from there.
I started from the number of seconds in a day, 86,400, then multiplied that in stages to get to 375 days, and so on.
86,400 x 5 = 432,000
432,000 x 5 = 2,160,000
2,160,000 x 5 = 10,800,000
10,800,000 x 3 = 32,400,000
32,400,000 – 864,000 = 31,536,000
31,536,000 + 21,600 = 31,557,600.
Dan says
July 23, 2015 @ 01:44
What about accounting for a leap year? :)
Garth says
July 23, 2015 @ 19:37
That’s where the 21,600 at the end comes in.
If you meant the .242 value for the overrun, then subtract (0.008 x 86,400), or (8 x 86.4).
31,557,600 – 691.2 = 31,556,908.8
If you meant the days in an actual leap year, then (31,536,000 + 86,400) = 31,622,400.
Dan says
July 24, 2015 @ 10:21
Touché. How about leap second?
Tinmvf says
August 5, 2015 @ 21:56
21
Roger says
September 16, 2015 @ 10:26
The correct answer is 12. Anyone who said 24 is an idiot.
abdulrasheed hazardo says
September 27, 2015 @ 07:18
31536000 is the correctanswer
Udana says
October 12, 2015 @ 23:39
There are 12 seconds (2nds) in a year
Gerber says
October 14, 2015 @ 10:57
31536000 seconds
Gerber says
October 14, 2015 @ 10:58
either that or 12 2nd’s in a year
Jong-Ku says
November 23, 2015 @ 11:38
There are exactly 31,536,000 seconds in one year take it from me im asian
Woo Kun Foo says
November 23, 2015 @ 11:43
there are “Thirty one million five hundred and thirty six thousand” seconds in one year!
Parker says
December 21, 2015 @ 15:48
12 Seconds:
Jan 2nd (1)
Feb 2nd (2)
March 2nd (3)
April 2nd (4)
May 2nd (5)
June 2nd (6)
July 2nd (7)
Aug 2nd (8)
Sept 2nd (9)
Oct 2nd (10)
Nov 2nd (11)
Dec 2nd (12)
Dan says
December 21, 2015 @ 16:43
You forgot Jan 22nd, Feb 22nd, March 22nd, etc.
Jill says
January 5, 2016 @ 21:44
what percent of a year is 26 seconds? Obviously I am NOT so great with math :/
I know there is 31,556,926 seconds in a year so would I than divide 31,556,926*12= ??
Or is that the wrong way to set up the problem?? Thanks to anyone with insight!!
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