A clock shows the time as 3:15. What is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?
Category: Brain Teasers · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Consider how each hand moves relative to the full circle.
Answer
52 degrees
Explanation
The minute hand moves 6 degrees per minute, and the hour hand moves 0.5 degrees per minute. At 3:15, the minute hand is at 90 degrees, and the hour hand is at 97.5 degrees, making the angle 52.5 degrees.
This is a expert brain teasers riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 52 degrees.
More Brain Teasers riddles
- I can be a spectrum, but I'm not a rainbow. I can exist in nature, but I’m not a flower. What am I?
- In a room, there are two mirrors facing each other. If you stand between them, how many reflections will you…
- I echo the world but am not of it. I can be soothing or jarring, yet I am intangible. What am I?
- I come in a box but I am not a gift. I can be opened, but I hold no treasures. What am I?
- I can hold a lot of weight, yet I am weightless. What am I?
- I can be created by heat but can’t be touched, I can cast a shadow but have no form. What am I?
- What can be seen but not touched, can create masterpieces that fade, and is the only thing that can outlive…
- What can be filled with water but is never wet?