Wednesday, November 27, 2013

P6 Geometry, clock (algebra, fr CCL)

Solve this extension to the earlier question:

(a) How many occasions are there when the minute hand and the hour hand coincide with each other?
(b) When are these occasions* ?
(c) What are the angles of both the hands clockwise from the position "12" at those instances where both hands coincide?

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* Warning! Except for the first and most trivial case (1200) the other cases comprise weird fractions (with minutes expressed as mixed numbers) :)


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