Trigonometry Examples

$30.194 °$

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.

$0.194 \cdot 60$

Step 2

Multiply $0.194$ by $60$ .

$11.64$

Step 3

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

$0.64 \cdot 60$

Step 4

Multiply $0.64$ by $60$ .

$38.4$

Step 5

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

$30$ $°$ $11$ $^{'}$ $38.4$ $^{″}$