1999 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 2
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[hide]Problem
What is the degree measure of the smaller angle formed by the hands of a clock at 10 o'clock?
Solution 1
At , the hour hand will be on the while the minute hand on the .
This makes them th of a circle apart, and .
Solution 2
We know that the full clock is a circle, and therefore has 360 degrees. Considering that there are numbers, the distance between one number will be . If the time is , then the hour hand will be on , and the minute hand will be on, , making them numbers apart, so they will be degrees apart, or
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