2006-10-29 16:28:40 · 23 answers · asked by truckergb2002 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
For the minute and hour hands:
Ten times -- just after 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10 o'clock. Midnight doesn't cound because we are stating with a "tie." Noon doesn't count becuase it has to be just after noon before the minute hand passes the second hand.
Add the second hand and you've got 59 x 12 additional instances of a hand passing another, 708 altogether for the second hand or 718 including the examples in the previous paragraph.
2006-10-29 16:35:08 · answer #1 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
10 times
2006-10-29 23:12:00 · answer #2 · answered by jido52 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2006-10-29 17:36:39 · answer #3 · answered by Basil P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2006-10-29 16:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by Jo W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
11
2006-10-29 18:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
59 x 12 = 708
2006-10-29 19:43:53 · answer #6 · answered by La parisienne ! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they pass each other a total of 13 times you don't count the last 12 mark as they technically do not pass each other.
12:00 Noon
1:05
2:10
3:13
4:20
5:25
6:30
7:35
8:40
9:45
10:50
11:55
12:00
2006-10-29 16:33:22 · answer #7 · answered by LunaFaye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 times. They don't pass at noon. They only pass at 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. At noon, they only come together.
2006-10-29 16:31:37 · answer #8 · answered by R_SHARP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose, technically, it's none, as they are both moving in the same direction, and the minute hand passes the hour hand, but the hour hand doesn't pass the minute hand, so they don't pass 'each other'.
2006-10-29 21:42:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay...I thought I knew this, until I read these answers, so, I went and got out my trusty wind up clock, and counted. The hands start together on the twelve, and cross ten times, then land together on the twelve.
2006-10-29 16:39:40 · answer #10 · answered by persnickety1022 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋