Question

What fraction of a day is $8$ hours?

Answer 1

Represent hours into a fraction of a day:

As we know,

$1\mathrm{day}=24\mathrm{hours}$

It means that,

$$\begin{gathered} 1\mathrm{hour}=\frac{1}{24}\mathrm{th}\mathrm{part}\mathrm{of}\mathrm{the}\mathrm{day} \\ \therefore 8\mathrm{hours}=8\times \frac{1}{24} \\ \Rightarrow =\frac{1}{3}\mathrm{th}\mathrm{part}\mathrm{of}\mathrm{the}\mathrm{day} \end{gathered}$$

Hence, $8\mathrm{hrs}.$ is a $\frac{1}{3}$ fraction of a day.