The hour hand is the shortest hand of all three on a clock.
1:30 Wrong. The "LITTLE" hand indicates the minute of the hour and the"BIG" hand indicates the hour of the day (or at least half day - AM/PM). The minute hand is the LITTLE hand because it represents the smaller unit of time when compared to an hour which is indicated by the BIG hand. Granted, the longer hand is longer than the shorter hand but it is was historically always thinner than the hour hand. Thinner = LITTLE And the hour hand was always shorter but fatter than the minute hand. Fatter = BIG The reason they were originally called "BIG" and "LITTLE" was based on the amount of time each represents. Hour is 60 times bigger than minute. Hour is BIG and minute is LITTLE. Hour hand is BIG HAND and minute hand is LITTLE HAND. End of story
210
To determine the fraction of an hour that 7 minutes represents, first convert 7 minutes to hours by dividing by 60 (since there are 60 minutes in an hour). This gives you 7/60 hours. To simplify this fraction, you can divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common factor, which is 1. Therefore, the fraction of an hour that 7 minutes represents is 7/60 hours.
12 hours
To write 3:10 AM in analog form, you would represent the hour hand pointing to the 3 and the minute hand pointing to the 2 on a clock face. The hour hand represents the hour, while the minute hand represents the minutes. The small hand pointing directly at the 3 indicates 3 o'clock, and the minute hand pointing at the 2 represents 10 minutes past the hour.
The short hand of a clock, which represents the hour hand, completes a full circle in 12 hours. Since a full circle is 360 degrees, in one hour, the hour hand travels 30 degrees (360 degrees divided by 12 hours). Therefore, in one hour, the short hand travels 30 degrees on any clock.
At 10:00, the hour hand is pointing at the 10, and the minute hand is pointing at the 12. Each hour on a clock represents 30 degrees (360 degrees / 12 hours). Therefore, the angle between the hour hand at 10 and the minute hand at 12 is 60 degrees (2 hours x 30 degrees).
The hour hand of a clock completes one full rotation, or 360 degrees, in 12 hours. This means that the hour hand turns 30 degrees per hour. So, in 12 hours, the hour hand will turn a total of 360 degrees.
15 degrees (a 15 degree angle). The minute hand points directly to the 6 (marking an exact half hour); the hour hand is exactly half way between the 6 and 7, marking 6.5 hours exactly. Each full hour (usually marked on clock by a number) represents 30 degrees (1/12 of 360); each half hour represents 1/2 of that or 15 degrees.
At 4 o'clock, the minute hand is at the 12, and the hour hand is at the 4. Each hour mark on a clock represents 30 degrees (360 degrees divided by 12 hours). Therefore, the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand at 4 o'clock is 4 x 30 = 120 degrees.
At 4:00, the hour hand is pointing at the 4, and the minute hand is pointing at the 12. Each hour mark on a clock represents 30 degrees (360 degrees / 12 hours). Therefore, the angle formed between the hour hand and the minute hand at 4:00 is 120 degrees, which is an obtuse angle.
1:30 Wrong. The "LITTLE" hand indicates the minute of the hour and the"BIG" hand indicates the hour of the day (or at least half day - AM/PM). The minute hand is the LITTLE hand because it represents the smaller unit of time when compared to an hour which is indicated by the BIG hand. Granted, the longer hand is longer than the shorter hand but it is was historically always thinner than the hour hand. Thinner = LITTLE And the hour hand was always shorter but fatter than the minute hand. Fatter = BIG The reason they were originally called "BIG" and "LITTLE" was based on the amount of time each represents. Hour is 60 times bigger than minute. Hour is BIG and minute is LITTLE. Hour hand is BIG HAND and minute hand is LITTLE HAND. End of story
At 9:00, the hour hand is positioned at the 9, while the minute hand points at the 12. Each hour mark on the clock represents 30 degrees (360 degrees/12 hours). Therefore, the angle between the hour and minute hands at 9:00 is 9 hours x 30 degrees = 270 degrees.
180 degrees.
It takes twelve hours for the hour hand to move 360 degrees In half an hour the hour hand moves 15 degrees
One full rotation of the hour hand is 12 hours. One full rotation of the minute hand is an hour
The hour hand of a clock completes one full revolution, or 360 degrees, in 12 hours. Therefore, in 6 hours, it moves half of that distance. To calculate this, you can divide 360 degrees by 12 hours to get 30 degrees per hour, and then multiply by 6 hours. Thus, the hour hand moves 180 degrees in 6 hours.