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Hour hand moves 30 degrees, minute hand moves 360 degrees.
The clock is divided into 12 hours. The hour hand moves 1/12th every hour. If the clock is likened to a circle of 360 degrees, each hour would represent 360 / 12 = 30 degrees.
According to that, the hand will move 5/60 or 1/12. Every minute on a clock face is 6 degrees. An hour hand will move 30 degrees in an hour.
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The hour hand on a clock completes one full rotation every 12 hours, which is equivalent to 360 degrees. Therefore, in one hour, the hour hand moves 360 degrees divided by 12, which equals 30 degrees. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, the hour hand moves 30 degrees divided by 60, which equals 0.5 degrees per minute. This is how we know that the hour hand moves half a degree in a minute.