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Ever watched a wall clock closely and wondered, “when do the minute and hour hands meet at an exact point?”. Well, that’s my challenge to you. I was recently given that problem and have since figured it out with all of my Math genius from my math camps.
I don’t want to give you a hint but I would like to see the exact time they are on top of each other. I want Hours, Min, Seconds, AND at least 2 hundredths of a decimal. In a full 24 hour day the clock hands match 22 times. Just give me 1 of those times and I’ll be good with that. Here is an example: at 6:34pm 25.44 seconds. This is obviously a wrong answer. I will not allow you to tell me the answer of 12:00.00.00 pm/am. So you only have 20 choices now.
I have received T-shirts for my original website that I started at Browie.com. If anyone can give me the answer I’ll ship you a free T-shirt. If I actually get an answer from some one or multiple people I may ask for an explanation so I know you didn’t cheat.
If you’re a blogger, I would write an article and see if one of your readers can find the answer, then you could reap the benefits. Feel free to post your answer in the comment area or contact me page.
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Well, I’ve had one person guess twice now and still no winner.
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how about 6:30 pm.30.30 or 1:05 pm 05.05 seconds or 9:45 pm. 45.45seconds
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ok i think the seconds things are wrong but of course that is a little too much math for me to think about so i still think 9:45 p.m. 45.i dont know what hundreths of seconds are ok just 45 again. maybe thats the trick
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If it’s 6:30 your Hr. hand is between the 6 and 7 so it can’t be 6:30.
The 9:45 guess is not close either because of the Hr. hand will be closer to the 10 when it’s 9:45.
Now, your 1:05 guess is close because the hr. hand will be just past the 5 but not 5.05 seconds.
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1:05:27 and 27/99 seconds
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For those that are wondering JLEville is correct.
1:05:27 and 3/11 seconds is correct, that is the second time after 12noon/am that works.
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I got the other ones…but i’ll let other people give it a try.
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wow i was a little bit close of course the seconds stuff a little too much math for me. wow like the new look.
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