Answers for A clock was exactly on time at noon on Monday. At 2 P.M. on Wednesday, it was 25 seconds slow. At that same rate, how much did it lose in 1/2 hour?
the clock lost 25 sec in 50 hours, for a loss rate of 1sec/2hr
so, in 1/2 hour, or 1/4 of 2 hrs, it loses .25 sec
1 second per hour
Please help with this. A clock is slow by 300s in 1 week. How many seconds will it lose in 14 days.
Well, let's do some time travel math, shall we? If the clock was 25 seconds slow in 2 hours, that means it loses 12.5 seconds per hour. So, in half an hour, it would lose half of that, which is 6.25 seconds. But hey, who needs to keep track of time accurately anyway? In the grand scheme of things, we're all just running a little behind.
To find out how much the clock lost in 1/2 hour, we need to determine the rate at which it loses time.
First, let's determine the time difference between Monday noon and Wednesday 2 P.M. There are 48 hours between Monday noon and Wednesday noon, and an additional 2 hours between Wednesday noon and Wednesday 2 P.M. Therefore, there is a total of 50 hours between Monday noon and Wednesday 2 P.M.
Next, we need to find out how much time the clock was slow during this period. It was 25 seconds slow at 2 P.M. on Wednesday.
To find the average time the clock lost per hour, we divide the number of seconds lost (25) by the number of hours (50).
25 seconds ÷ 50 hours = 0.5 seconds per hour
Now that we know the rate at which the clock loses time, we can calculate how much it lost in 1/2 hour by multiplying the rate by the duration.
0.5 seconds per hour × 0.5 hours = 0.25 seconds
Therefore, the clock lost 0.25 seconds in 1/2 hour.