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(English (Auto-Generated) ) Decimal Degrees To DMS Formula - Converting Degrees Minutes and Seconds To Decimal - Trigonometry (DownSub - Com)

The document discusses how to convert between degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) and decimal degree measurements of angles. It provides examples of converting DMS values like 45°28'32" to decimal degrees (45.475°), and decimal degrees like 38.425° to DMS (38°25'32"). The key steps are to divide minutes by 60 and seconds by 3600 when converting to decimal degrees, and to multiply the decimal portion by 60 when converting to DMS.

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(English (Auto-Generated) ) Decimal Degrees To DMS Formula - Converting Degrees Minutes and Seconds To Decimal - Trigonometry (DownSub - Com)

The document discusses how to convert between degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) and decimal degree measurements of angles. It provides examples of converting DMS values like 45°28'32" to decimal degrees (45.475°), and decimal degrees like 38.425° to DMS (38°25'32"). The key steps are to divide minutes by 60 and seconds by 3600 when converting to decimal degrees, and to multiply the decimal portion by 60 when converting to DMS.

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now let's talk about how to convert DMS

that is degrees minutes and seconds into

a decimal in degrees let's think of an

hour as being equal to one degree and

there's 60 minutes in one hour and

there's 3600 seconds in an hour

this will help you to remember what to

do when you convert in DMS to a decimal

in degrees so let's say if we have the

value 45 degrees 28 minutes and 32

seconds let's convert that to degrees so

here's what you need to do it's going to

be equal to 45 plus 28 divided by 60

always divide the number of minutes by

60 because of 60 minutes an hour plus 32

divided by 3600 there's 36

there's 3,600 seconds in an hour so

divide the second spot in 3600 and just

type this information in your calculator

and it should give you the answer so 45

plus 28 over 60 plus 32 over 3600 and

you should get forty five point four

seven five six degrees and so that's the

answer now let's try some more examples

try this one

convert 38 degrees 41 minutes and 27

seconds into a decimal in degrees round

your answer to four decimal places so

this is equal to 38 plus 41 over 60 plus

27 divided by 3600 and type this in


exactly the way you see it in your

waiter so the answer is thirty eight

point six nine zero eight degrees now

let's try one more example try this one

53 degrees 18 minutes and 39 seconds go

ahead and convert that to a decimal

degrees so it's just going to be 53 plus

18 divided by 16 plus 39 divided by 3600

and that's going to be about fifty three

point three one zero eight degrees so

now you know how to convert the DMS to a

decimal in degrees now let's convert a

decimal in degrees back into DMS that is

degrees minutes and seconds so let's say

if we have the value 38 degrees actually

thirty-eight point four two five six

degrees let's convert that to degrees

minutes and seconds so how can we do

this so the whole number that you see

here 38 that's your value in degrees so

what we have so far is 38 degrees now

take the decimal value point four two

five six and what you want to do is you

want to multiply that by sixty point

four two five six times 60 that's 25

point five three six now take the whole

number 25 and write that as their value

for minutes so it's twenty-five minutes

now take the decimal that remains which


is point five three six and

supplies that by 16 25 36 x 60 is 32.16

many one around this turn there is whole

number so in this case that's 32 and so

that's going to be the number of seconds

so we have 32 seconds so this is our

answer

38 degrees 25 minutes and 32 seconds not

to confirm the answer type this in your

calculator 38 plus 25 divided by 60 plus

32 divided by 3600 it should give us our

original value

now the answer won't be exact

but it's going to be close to it what I

have is thirty eight point four two five

five repeating so instead of writing

five five repeated if you round it this

is going to be five six the reason why

it's not a it's not going to be an exact

answer is because we didn't use the 16

we use we rounded 32.16 to 32 so this

answer is going to be very close to the

answer that you started with in the

beginning and if it's very very close

then you know you did it correctly now

let's try some other examples let's say

if we have 52 point three one seven five

degrees convert that to DMS degrees

minutes and seconds so first we can see

that it's going to be 52 degrees that's


the first number that we need to write

now let's take the decimal value point

three one seven five and let's multiply

it by 60

so this is going to be nineteen point

zero five and the number nineteen that's

how many minutes that we have now let's

take the remaining value point zero five

and let's multiply that by sixty point

zero five times 60 is stream and that's

an exact answer so this is going to be

three seconds now let's confirm the

answer so type this in your calculator

52 plus 19 divided by 60 plus three

divided by 3600 you should always do a

quick check to see if you have the right

answer and you do indeed get fifty two

point three one seven five so we know

that this answer is correct let's try

one more example seventy two point four

eight one three degrees go ahead and

pause the video and convert it to

degrees minutes seconds so let's write

the first number 72 so we have 72

degrees now let's take the decimal value

point four eight and one three and let's

multiply that by 60

so this is going to be 28.87 8 and so

let's record this number so we have 28


minutes and then let's take the decimal

value 0.8 7 8 and let's multiply that by

60 point 8 7 8 times 60

that's 52 point six eight now what you

want to do is you want to round this

number six we need to because of the six

we need to round the two to a three so

we gotta round up so instead of rawness

is 52 we're going to run into 53 and

that's the answer now because we round

it in this answer is not exact I'm going

to converting this back to this number

but it should be close so if we type in

72 plus 28 divided by 60 plus 53 divided

by 3600 we're going to get 72 point four

eight one four if you run it if you

don't run it it's like one three nine

now let's see what would happen if we

kept it as 52

if we kept it at 52 it would be seventy

two point four eight one one which is

further than one four so this is closer

to the actual answer so therefore this

is our best estimation and that's the

answer for this problem now for those of

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