A clock loses 12 minutes every hour. If it is correctly set at 3:00, in how many hours will it next show the correct time?
When it has lost a total of 12 hours. How long will that take? It loses one hour every five hours.
I would say it takes 60 hours or 2.5 days
To find out how many hours it will take for the clock to next show the correct time, we need to determine the time difference between the current time (3:00) and the correct time.
Since the clock loses 12 minutes every hour, it means that for every hour that passes in real time, the clock will only show 48 minutes. In other words, the clock loses 12 minutes out of the 60 minutes that make up an hour.
To calculate the time difference between the clock and the correct time, we need to subtract the current time from the correct time:
Correct time: 60 minutes
Current time: 48 minutes
Time difference: 60 - 48 = 12 minutes
Therefore, the clock is currently 12 minutes behind the correct time.
Since the clock loses 12 minutes every hour, it will gain back those 12 minutes after 1 hour. Therefore, it will take 1 hour for the clock to next show the correct time.
So, the clock will next show the correct time in exactly 1 hour.