Clocks: How many times a day does the bigger hand cover the little one?
On most clocks:
If the hands are at midday/midnight the hour hand covers the hours hand – though, how many others times are there where they are actually one above the other? An example would be 6:30 though it isn’t in any watch or clock. Good luck!
3:15 and 8:45 come to mind
12
I’m not sure, either 12 or 24, don’t think I followed the question real well, but I do know how to tell when it’s midnight at Michael Jacksons house, it’s when the big hand is on the little hand. haha
24 times in a day. Hands will align at different points around the clock. Noon and midnight are straight up, as you know. Hands overlap around 1:05-1:06, and continue on thru all the hours.
In a 24 hour period from EXACTLY midnight to midnight, there are 25 crossings of the hands.
Midnight, midday, the following midnight, plus one every hour in between.
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ADDENDUM :
Having been away and though about this, the answer is actually 23 crossings in an EXACT period of 24 hours. Thus:-
00.00 – Midnight
01.05
02.11
03.16
04.21
05.27
06.32
07.38
08.43
09.49
10.54
12.00 – Noon
13.05
14.11
15.16
16.21
17.27
18.32
19.38
20.43
21.49
22.54
00.00 – Midnight
Times other than 12 am/pm are obviously approximate.
This just goes to show that often an apparently simple question turns out to be somewhat more tricky!!!
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At 6:30 the hands are NOT directly in line. The minute hand points at 6 but the hour hand is half way to 7.
The answer to your original question is that the hands are directly in line 11 times, assuming it’s a standard 12 hour clock.
24 times
The minute hand passes over the hour hand once every hour…duh
How many hours in a day?
I believe it’s 23 mate…ie: 12:00 (noon), 1:05:30, 2:11, 3:16:30, 4:22, 5:27:30, 6:32:30, 7:38, 8:43:30, 9:49, 10:54:30, 12:00(midnight), then repeat the rest.
11 times
About 60 times, at every interval. Owing to the thickness of the hands, they cannot meet more than this, since then those are considered to be part of the former meeting.