12 min before 12:00
11 : 48 AM
11:34
12 o'clock or noon. There are 60 minutes in an hour.
Well, isn't that a happy little puzzle! Let's see, if it was 44 minutes ago that it was 3 times as many minutes past 9 am, that means it was 11 am at that time. So, we are 60 minutes away from 12 noon, and if we subtract the 44 minutes, we have 16 minutes left before 12 noon. Just enough time to paint a beautiful little landscape!
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You first need to convert everything to minutes: 12 noon = 12 x 60 = 720 minutes 9 am = 9 x 60 = 540 minutes Let x = number of minutes before noon The time now is 12 noon -x = 720 -x minutes 48 minutes ago it was 720-x-48 720 -x - 48 = 540 + 2x 720-48-540 = 3x x = 44 minutes It is 44 minutes before noon, or 11:16 am
11:42am
12:30 PM
Subtracting 26 minutes from 12:00 gives 11:34am.
Number of minutes since midnight = 9*number of minutes since noon. So number of minutes since midnight = 9/(9+1)*number of minutes between midnight and noon. = 0.9*number of minutes between midnight and noon. = 0.9*time between midnight and noon. = 0.9*12 hours. = 10.8 hours. = 10 hours and 0.8*60 minutes = 10 hours and 48 minutes. So the time is 10:48 am
50 minutes before noon.