Trigonometry Examples

$20.2611$

Step 1

To convert decimal degree to degree, minutes, and seconds, the whole units of degrees will remain the same. Multiply the decimal by $60$ . The whole number becomes the minutes.

$0.2611 \cdot 60$

Step 2

Multiply $0.2611$ by $60$ .

$15.666$

Step 3

Take the remaining decimal and multiply by $60$ and take the whole number portion to find the seconds.

$0.666 \cdot 60$

Step 4

Multiply $0.666$ by $60$ .

$39.96$

Step 5

Take the three sets of whole numbers and combine them, using the symbols for degrees $(°)$ , minutes $(^{'})$ , and seconds $(^{″})$ .

$20$ $°$ $15$ $^{'}$ $39.96$ $^{″}$