At 3:00 the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock point in directions that...

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At 3:00 the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock point indirections that are 90° apart. What is the first time after 3:00that the angle between the two hands has decreased to 26.0°?

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Lets first try and work out how many degrees each hand moves each minute The hour hand does one lap of the clockface every 12 hours or 1260 720 minutes So the hour hand travels 360 degrees every 720 minutes and    See Answer
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