Given:
45° 15'
This means 45 degrees, 15 minutes. The minutes is a term used to represent the fractional parts of a degree.
To convert 45° 15', we have:
45° + 15'
where,
[tex]1^{\prime}\text{= }\frac{1}{60}\degree[/tex]Therefore:
[tex]45\degree+15^{\prime}\text{ = }45\text{ + }\frac{15}{60}\text{ = }45\text{ + 0.25 = }45.25\degree[/tex]ANSWER:
45.25°
