Clock

Reasoning with Mohit Kawatra

1. Clock
 In this chapter we will discuss all
about clock, we all are familiar with
the clock. A clock is an instrument  º
used for indicating the time,  º
The face or dial of a clock is divided
 º
along the circumference into 12 equal
spaces are called hour spaces and 60  º
equal space are called minute spaces.  º
The clock has three needles. The
largest one is called the minute hand. Second hand
The smallest one is called the hours  Second hand rotates 360º in 1 minute.
hand.  It rotates 360º in 60 seconds.
 It rotates 6º in one second.

 º
 º
 º

 We know that the hour hand rotates

0.5º in one minute.
 Also, we know that the minutes hand
The basic structure of a clock with rotates 6º in one minute.
hand :-  Thus, the relative rotation of hours
hand and minute hand is 5.5º per
minute.

 º


º

º

 Look at the table to know the required

Hour hand angle for a particular position of hours
hand and minute hand.
 Hour hand rotates 360º in 12 hours.
 It rotates 30º in one hour.
 It rotates 30º in 60 minutes.
 It rotates 0.5º in one minutes.

 º
 º
 º
 º

Minute hand
 Minute hand rotates 360º in 12
hours.
 It rotates 30º in one hours.
 It rotates 30º in 60 minutes.
 It rotates 0.5º in one minutes.

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 e.g. 5 : 00 & 6 : 00 ; 95° = ?
POSITION
REQUIRED
OF
: ANGLE
HANDS 2
A = 5 × 30 = 150 (150o - 95o )
Coincide : 0° 1 11
Right
: 90°
angle
Opposite : 180° A = 95º 2 × 55 = 5
2 11
Straight
: 0° or 180°
line
= 5 : 10 Ans.

FORMULA UESD FOR CALCULATING ANGLE

e.g. 5 : 30 & 6 : 00 A 2 : 70°
Angle
5 : 00 & 6 : 00
11
(1) 30 × H – M × or
2 2
(A + A )
11 1 2
11 2
(2) M × - 30 × H = (5× 30 + 70o )
2 11
2
= × (150 + 70)
Angle/ : 11
e.g. 7 : 30, Find Angle/ 2
= × 220 = 40o
Hr. : min. 11
= 5 : 40Ans
60(H) - 11(min) 60 × 7 - 11 × 30
=
2 2 FORMULA USED FOR CALCULATING HOUR
420 - 330 90 o Hours
= = = 45 Ans.
2 2
360o - 45o = 315o Ans 11
(1) (M × + A)
H= 2
e.g. 5 : 40 find the smaller Angle 30
(11M + 2A)
=
60
60(H) - 11(min) 60 × 5 - 11 × 40
= or
2 2
(2)
300 - 440 140 11
= = = 70o Ans. (M × - A)
2 2 2
H=
30
(11M - 2A)
At what time between 5 : 00 and 6 : 00 =
are the hands at angle 95° 60
°

MIRROR
2 TIME SHOWN IN CLOCK
Time/ = (A + A )
+
11 1 2
TIME SHOWN IN MIRROR
A = [Smaller number/ ] × 30 IMAGE OF CLOCK
1
= 12 HOURS
A = [Given angle/ ]
2 Ex. By looking in a mirror it appears
that it sis 6 : 30 in the clock. What
is the real time ?

(a) 6 : 30 (b) 5 : 30
(c) 6 : 00 (d) 5 : 00

3. Clock
 Ex. What time is shown by the mirror if
the real time is 9 : 27? RIGHT ANGLE
12 – 02 : 4 TIME
02 - 04 : 3 TIMES
04 – 06 : 4 TIMES
(a) 3 : 33
06 - 08 : 4 TIMES
(b) 2 : 33 08 – 10 : 3 TIMES
(c) 3 : 27 10 – 12 : 4 TIMES
(d) 2 : 23

Ex. Moring 6:00 am  7:00 pm. 90°

WATER IMAGE : Angle/
TIME SHOWN IN CLOCK
+
(a) 24
TIME SHOWN IN WATER IMAGE (b) 23
OF CLOCK (c) 19
= 18:30 HOURS or 17:90 HOURS (d) 15

INCORRECT CLOCK
Ex. Time appears in water is 5 : 47, what
A Clock moves slowly at 7:00am it was
will be correct time in watch.
set ahead by 5minutes but at 2:00pm
it was left behind by 9mins. When was
it correct ?
(a) 12 : 47
(b) 12 : 43
(c) 1: 47
(d) 1: 43

COINCIDE
Time Interval/ :- 7 hrs
11 - 01 : 1 TIME Total slow/ :- 5 min + 9min =
01- 03 : 2 TIMES
03 – 05 : 2 TIMES
14min
05 - 07 : 2 TIMES To slow down by 14 min : - 7hrs
07 – 09 : 2 TIMES 7hrs
09 – 11 : 2 TIMES
To slow down by 1 min
Ex. Monday 7:00 am Tuesday 9:00 pm = 7
0° Angle/ =
14
(a) 35 To slow down by 2 min
(b) 32
(c) 34
(d) 29 7 1
= × 5 = 2 hrs
14 2
1
OPPOSITE 7 : 00 + 2 hrs = 9 : 30am.
2
05 – 07 : 1 TIMES
07 - 09 : 2 TIMES
09 – 11 : 2 TIMES Ex. A watch, which gains uniformly is
11 - 01 : 2 TIMES 2minutes low at noon on Monday and
01 – 03 : 2 TIMES is 4 min 48sec fast at 2pm on the
03 – 05 : 2 TIMES following Monday. When was it
correct?

Ex. 2 to 3 = 180° Angle/

7 8
(a) 43 (b) 44
11 11
7 7
(c) 36 (d) 35 (a) 2pm on Wednesday
11 11
(b) 2pm on Tuesday
(c) 1:45 on Tuesday
(d) 1:45 on Wednesday

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 5. How will you write 1.85 hours in
Excersice Question:- hours, minutes and seconds?

1. At 9 pm, the hour hand faces north,

Which direction will the minute hand
(a) 1 hour, 51 minutes
face at 6 :30am?
(b) 1 hour, 8 minutes, 5 second

(c) 2 hours,15 minutes

(a) North (b) East
(d) 1 hour, 5 minutes, 10 second
(c) West (d) South

2. A clock is showing the times 4:35. If

the minute hand moves 270 degrees in 6. What is angle is made by hours hand
clockwise direction, in which direction in 36 sec ?
does the hour band point?

(a) 120° (b) 3°

 
3  10 
(a) South-East (c)   (d)  
(b) South-West  10  3
(c) North
7. What is the angle between minutes
(d) North-East
hand and hour hand at 9:30 ?
3. A clock is showing the time 1:40. If the
minute hand points to South- West, in
which direction does the hour hand (a) 90° (b) 100°
point? (c) 105° (d) 110°

8. What is the measure of the angle

formed by the hour and minutes hand
when the time is 10 O’clock ?
(a) North-East
(b) South
(c) North (a) 30° (b) 45°
(d) South-East (c) 60° (d) 90°

4. According to the time by Rick’s watch 9. How many degree will the minutes
its quarter past eight. If the minute hand move, in the same time in which
hand points towards the east, towards second have move 300° ?
which direction would the hour hand
point? °
(a) 6° (b) 5°
(c) 8° (d) 4°

(a) North-West 10. What is the angle between minute

hand and hour hand at 3:56 ?
(b) South-West
(c) North-East
(d) South-East
(a) 152° (b) 228°
(c) 360° (d) 142°

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 11. How many degrees will the minute 17. Time in a clock is 11:15, what is the
hand move, in the same time, in time in the mirror ?
which the hour hand move 10° ?
(a) 12:15 (b) 11:45
(c) 12:45 (d) 12:00
(a) 30° (b) 115°
(c) 120° (d) 125° 18. If on the dial clock, we substitute the
numbers with the reversed order of
alphabets K to V . So that V
12. How many times will the hands of
substitutes ‘5’ and U substitutes ‘6’
clock be at right angle in a day?
and the process is continued, then
which alphabet will come in place of
11?
(a) 22 (b) 44 K V
(c) 42 (d) 24
V
13. What angle is made by second hand in ' ' U ' '
15 sec ?

(a) Q (b) O
(a) 15° (b) 1.5° (c) M (d) P

 19. At what time between 10 to 11 O’clock

1
(c)   (d) 90° minutes and hour hand will coincide
8 or makes 0° angle ?

14. A clock with only dots marking 3,6,9

and 12 positions has been kept upside
down in front of mirror. A person 7 2
reads the time in the reflection of the (a)10 : 43 (b)10 : 38
11 11
clock as 4:50. What is the actual time?
6 10
(c)10 : 54 (d)10 : 10
11 11
20. Find at what time between 2 and 3
O’clock will the hands of a clock be in
the same straight line but not
(a) 08:10 (b) 01:40 together?
(c) 04:50 (d) 10:20

15. What time is shown by the mirror if

the real time 4 : 30 ?
6
(a) 2 : 43
11
(a) 7:00 (b) 7:30 7
(c) 6:30 (d) 8:30 (b) 2 : 43
11
16. Time in a clock is 3:13 what time will 3
be appear in water? (c) 2 : 43
11
(d) None of these/

(a) 3:17 (b) 2:17 21. In Ravi’s Clock shop, two clock were
(c) 3:23 (d) 2:13 bought for repairs. One clock has the
cockoo coming out every 16 minutes,
while the other one has the cockoo
come out at 12:00 noon when will they
both come out together again?

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 East direction.
3.(a)

(a) 2:06pm (b) 2:08pm

(c) 2:24pm (d) 2:32pm

22. If in a clock, the minute hand

overtakes the hour hand in 70
minutes of correct time, then how
much does the clock gain or loss in 77
At 1:40 the monute hand point to
hours?
South-West then hour hand points
towards Noeth-East direction.

4.(b) As shown in diagram hour hand is in

(a) 5 hours slow South West Direction.
(b) 5 hours fast
(c) 6 hours slow
(d) 6 hours fast

ANSWER:-
1.(c) 2.(a) 3.(a) 4.(b) 5.(a) 5.(a) To convert to minutes siply multiply
decimal hurs by 60. 1.85 × 60 = 111
6.(c) 7.(c) 8.(c) 9.(b) 10.(d)
minutes = 1 hour 51 minute
11.(c) 12.(b) 13.(d) 14.(b) 15.(b)
6.(c) Hour hand in 1 hour
16.(b) 17.(c) 18.(d) 19.(c) 20.(b) = 30º
Then 3600 second = 30º
21.(c) 22.(a)

30  1 
1 second =  
3600  120 
SOLUTION:- 
1  3
in 36 second   36   
1.(c) At 6:30 AM, minute hand will point in 120  10 
west direction.
 60 M  11M 
7. By angle formula =  
 2 
H=9 , M=30

9  60  30  11

2
540  330 210
2.(a)    105
2 2

8. By angle formula
H=10 , M= 00
After the minute hand moves 270
degrees in clockwise direction.

Now the hour band point is in South-

7. Clock
 Then in 15 second = 15 × 6º = 90º
60 H  11M
 14. When clock is kept upside down in
2 fornt a mirror, then we have to tell
60  10  11 0 water image time.
 18:30 or 01:40
2
600
 300 
 180 
  300  15. For mirror image
2 11: 60
 360   300  60 - 4 : 30
7 : 30 ans

9. Second’s hand covers 360º in minute. 16. In water image the time 3 : 13 has the
voth hands between 12:00 to 6:00
300 5 clock-wise hence we substract that
Time for 300º =  minute
360 6 time from 5 : 30
5: 30 - 3 : 13 = 2 : 17 ans
5
in minute, Minute hand cover
6 17. 11 : 60 - 11 : 15 = 00 : 45 or 12 :45

5 ans
 6
6
18. K L M N O P Q R S T U V
 5 4 3 2 1 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5
10. By angle formula
H=3, M=56 19. By unique formula
H=10, Angle = 0º

60 H  11M 0 12
 10 : (10  5  ) 
2 6 11
60  56  11 12
 10 : (50  0) 
2 11

180  616 436 600
  10 :
2 2 11

 218
( 218  180 ) 6
or 10 : 54
11
360  218  142

A1  2  30  60
20.
 A2  180
1
11. Hour hand cover   in = 1 minute
2 2
10º in = 10 × 2 = 20 minute Minute  (60  180)
11
Angle covered by minutehand = 20 × 6
=120º 2 7
  240  43
11 11
12. The two hand from a right angle after
360 7
every minute. So, Time  2 : 43
11 11
Total number of minute in a day
= 24 × 60 = 1440 minutes 21. LCM of 16 and 18 = 144
Number of times the two hands will 12:00 + 144 minutes
form right angle = 12:00 + 2hour + 24 minute
= 2:24 pm
360
1440   44
11
8. 13. Second hand cover in 1 second = 6º
Clock
 22. Given Time = 70 minute
Total time = 77 hours

5
65  70
 11  77
70
720  770
  77
11 70
 50
  77
11 70
 50hrs

Hence ‘-’ means the clock is slow.

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