Hands of the Clock

How many times do the hands of the clock coincide in a day?
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Answered by: deepti

  • Jul 5th, 2005

The hands of a clock coincide 11 times in every 12 hours(Since between 11 and 1 they coincide only once,i.e at 12 o clock).therefore the hands of the clock coincide 22 times a day.

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pani

  • Jun 2nd, 2005
 

24 times 
one time per hour like 12, 1:5, 2:10...........

deepti

  • Jul 5th, 2005
 

The hands of a clock coincide 11 times in every 12 hours(Since between 11 and 1 they coincide only once,i.e at 12 o clock).therefore the hands of the clock coincide 22 times a day.

zakirhussain

  • Sep 5th, 2005
 

24 times the clock handes concides.

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sunny jain

  • Sep 27th, 2005
 

hand of clk coincide 22 times a day

Sheetal Salunkhe

  • Nov 21st, 2005
 

hand clk coincide in a day 24 times.

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Kunal Gujar

  • Dec 1st, 2005
 

Its 24 times and not 22

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Prakash Sachania

  • Jan 21st, 2006
 

Answer is 23. One less than 24 times.

jaspreet(jagz)

  • Feb 19th, 2006
 

d answer is 22..coz the tim gap b/w any two coincidences is 12/11hrs or 65 5/11 minutes

dulari budhbhatti

  • Feb 26th, 2006
 

ans is 23 times a day.. as 12 times in 12 hours but from the second 12 when teo hand coincide it will be a new day

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bored loser

  • Apr 8th, 2006
 

i think the hands of the clock coincide "exactly" only twice a day...coz for all other times there is a slight angle difference bw the hour n the minute hand..except at 12 wen the difference is 0 degrees...

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akhilesh k

  • Jul 17th, 2006
 

the answer is exactly 22

bcoz the hour hand and minute hand coincides only once in between 11 and 12

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amateur

  • Aug 7th, 2006
 

22 times as in 12 hrs it coincides 11 times...

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Nancy

  • Sep 6th, 2006
 

It's 24 . 24 hrs make a day which implies it should have come together 24 times..

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karthik kumar

  • Sep 13th, 2006
 

for the first 12 hrs it ll coincide 12 times n for next 12 hrs its 11

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prafulla

  • Sep 20th, 2006
 

 24 times

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sekhar

  • Oct 8th, 2006
 

The hands of a clock are coincide 22 times per day.

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venkat

  • Oct 27th, 2006
 

24 times

Start counting from 12 to 1 -1

1-2 -1

2-3 -1

...........

11-12 -1

Totally 12 times for 12 hours

so 24 times for a day.

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Vijay Sharma

  • Dec 11th, 2006
 

23...is the right ans.

balaji

  • Jan 20th, 2007
 

24 times.

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sujana

  • Feb 8th, 2007
 

22 times in a day

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varun sabharwal

  • Mar 3rd, 2007
 

the answer has to be 23 times, allthough their are 24 hrs a day but the number of intervals is 23, and the two hands coincide once in every interval

vishwanathpillay

  • Aug 10th, 2008
 

The clock hands concide with each other 24 times.
since we have 24 hrs in a day.
after 1 o clock hands of  the clock concide,
after 2 o clock hands of  the clock concide,
after 3 o clock hands of  the clock concide,
...
...
...
similarly at 24th hr both hands concide.

So this proves that the clock hands concide 24 times.

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itclanster

  • Dec 12th, 2009
 

22 is the correct answer.
Because the clock will tick at 12 and at between 1-2,
bet 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10-11, 12, 1-2,
2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10-11, 12

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arsagg

  • Mar 31st, 2010
 

The clock will tick at 00:00 and then at between 1-2
between 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10-11, 12 PM then 1-2,
2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10-11,  and between 11 pm - 11:59 PM.
The last time for the day would be : 23:59:59

Now If you count these if will come to 23

on 00:00 hours it would be the next day.

Correct Answer is 23

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