Because one minute contains exactly 60 seconds, you convert from minutes to seconds by multiplying by 60. The logic flows naturally: if there are 60 seconds per minute, then for any number of minutes you just multiply that count by 60 to find the total seconds.
This is particularly handy in programming, where many timing functions (countdown timers, session expiry, cache TTL, sleep/delay functions) expect their input in seconds. Knowing that 5 minutes = 300 seconds or 30 minutes = 1,800 seconds is a quick mental conversion that comes up constantly.
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