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Disclaimer: I've never written any C# code, I write Java code.

"Convert.ToDouble(Convert.ToInt32(hourStr)/60)+Convet.ToInt32(minStr)" - while nobody writes code in this way in production this is exactly the way of coding endorsed by Codility-like programming challenges when you have 30 minutes to come up with a solution.

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Maybe for someone with no experience in the desired language and minimal access to docs, but for someone that professes a knowledge of C# 6 they ought to at least know about the `TimeSpan` class.

For anyone with the knowledge the person claimed to have, that code should boil down to something more like TimeSpan.Parse($"{hourStr}:{minStr}").TotalMinutes;

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