If the Harris-Walz campaign produces a 30-second TV ad and airs it 1,000 times in each of the 50 states, how many hours of airtime will the ad receive nationally?
417 hours
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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are running against Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. To calculate the total airtime:
1. Ad duration: 30 seconds
2. Number of airings per state: 1,000
3. Number of states: 50
4. Total airings: 1,000 × 50 = 50,000
5. Total seconds: 50,000 × 30 seconds = 1,500,000 seconds
6. Convert to hours: 1,500,000 seconds ÷ 3,600 seconds/hour = 416.67 hours
Rounding to the nearest hour, the ad will receive 417 hours of airtime nationally.