If the hour hand on a clock moves one half of a degree every minute how many degrees will the hand move in an hour?

Answer 1

61

Answer 2

The hour hand moves from 12 to 12 in 12 hours and that's 360 degreesthe right answer is 60 degrees because the clock is defective and is moving at twice the rate 1/60th /minute or 60 degrees per hour instead of the normal 30. that's the trick part of the question.

Or:

Yes, the clock is defective.

On a normal 12-hour clock, the hour hand moves 360° in 12 hours, 360° in 720 minutes, or ½° every minute, not 1/60°. In one hour, 60 minutes, this hour hand will only move 1° while a normal 12-hour clock's hour hand would have moved 30°.

On a normal 24-hour clock, the hour hand moves 360° in 24 hours, 360° in 1440 minutes, or ¼° every minute. In one hour, the hour hand of a 24-hour clock will move 15°.

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NO! Actually: the clock is defective, but it does not move 60° in an hour it moves 1° in an hour. 1/60° per minute * 60 min = 1°.

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wait, 1 may be the right answer, but if the hand goes 360 degrees all the way around the clock, wouldn't the answer be that the hand has moved zero degrees from where it started? because it started on the 12, landed on the 12, therefore it is not different from where it begun. Technically, it moved 360 degrees, but it hasn't moved from the 12 to the 1, has it?

Answer 3

The hour hand on a clock will move 30 degrees every hour. (This assumes a "regular" clock and not a 24-hour clock.) The hour hand of a clock will move 360 degrees in 12 hours. That means it will move 360/12 degrees in one hour. That's 30 degrees in an hour. There are 60 minutes in an hour, so the hour hand will move 30/60 degrees in a minute. That's 0.5 degrees in a minute.

Answer 4

On a standard analog 12 hour clock, it takes 720 minutes for the hour hand to go around the clock once (360 degrees), so every minute the hour hand advances by 1/2 of a degree, not 1/60th of a degree. The hour hand will advance by 1/12th of the full 360 degrees in one hour, which is 30 degrees.

Answer 5

The question contains an invalid premise: On a normal 12-hour clock, the hour hand moves 360° in 12 hours, 360° in 720 minutes, or ½° every minute, not 1/60°. In one hour, 60 minutes, a normal 12-hour clock's hour hand will move 30°.

Answer 6

The question contains an invalid premise: On a normal 12-hour clock, the hour hand moves 360° in 12 hours, 360° in 720 minutes, or ½° every minute, not 1/60° (nor 160 of a degree). In one hour, 60 minutes, a normal 12-hour clock's hour hand will move 30°. On a normal 24-hour clock, the hour hand moves 360° in 24 hours, 360° in 1440 minutes, or ¼° every minute. In one hour, the hour hand of a 24-hour clock will move 15°. 160*60 = 9600 degrees

Answer 7

On a normal 12-hour clock, the hour hand moves thru 360° in 12 hours, 360° in 720 minutes, or ½° every minute. In an hour's time, the hour hand moves 30°.

Answer 8

On a normal 12-hour clock, the hour hand moves thru 360° in 12 hours, 360° in 720 minutes, or ½° every minute. In one hour, the hour hand moves thru 30°.

Answer 9

30 degrees

360 degrees is how much the minute hand moves in an hour.

Answer 10

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