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Here are a few of the solutions we received:
Do human beings live for as long as a million hours?Amy from Frances Bardsley School for Girls concluded that most of us don't:
24 hrs = 1 dayAnd students from Jumeirah Primary School came to the same conclusion:
No, because the average human lives for 80 years. This equals 700800 hours, which is less that 1000000.
Saad from JPS in Dubai worked out that just a few of us do:
24 hours = 1day.Linden from HighdownSchool worked out that there would be no birthdays:
1000000 seconds / 60 =16667 mintuesAlex from Welsey Collegecame to the same conclusion:
Alex from Toot Hill's Junior Maths Academy (Mathletes) had a go at this problem:
Thank you all for your clear explanations.