To determine how many years Eli has left until graduation, we will convert the given time in seconds into years. Here is a detailed, step-by-step solution to solve this problem:
1. Determine the total number of seconds in a year:
- There are 365 days in a year (ignoring leap years for simplicity).
- Each day has 24 hours.
- Each hour has 60 minutes.
- Each minute has 60 seconds.
Therefore, the total number of seconds in a year is:
[tex]\[
365 \text{ days/year} \times 24 \text{ hours/day} \times 60 \text{ minutes/hour} \times 60 \text{ seconds/minute}
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2. Calculate the total seconds per year:
- [tex]\[
365 \times 24 \times 60 \times 60 = 31,536,000 \text{ seconds/year}
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3. Convert the given seconds to years:
- Eli has 55,225,800 seconds left until graduation.
- To find out how many years this represents, we divide the total seconds left by the number of seconds in a year.
[tex]\[
\text{Years left} = \frac{55225800 \text{ seconds}}{31536000 \text{ seconds/year}}
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4. Perform the division:
- [tex]\[
\frac{55225800}{31536000} \approx 1.7511986301369864 \text{ years}
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Based on the calculation, Eli has approximately 1.75 years left until graduation, which is just a bit less than 1 year and 9 months.
