The minute hand on a clock goes through ___ degrees between 2:38 am and 3:12 am

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anonymous · Answer

please help!!

anonymous · Answer

just want to check if my answer is correct!

karatechopper · Answer

What is your answer?

anonymous · Answer

i got 40? I'm not sure what did you get

karatechopper · Answer

currently trying to figure out how to solve it haha. hold on.

anonymous · Answer

k

karatechopper · Answer

in the meanwhile, show me how you solved it

anonymous · Answer

360 degrees?

anonymous · Answer

my time is almost up i need to know what it is so i know

karatechopper · Answer

Are you taking a quiz? Test?

anonymous · Answer

no my computer is almost out of battery

anonymous · Answer

394?

karatechopper · Answer

oh
well let me break it down real fast. 
the time between 2:38 and 3:12 is 34 minutes.
There are 360 degrees in a circle. 
I take it as if there are 60 minutes in an hour.
I divide 360/60 to find the amount of minutes per degree.
For me, that turns out to be 6 min per degree.
then I did 34 minutes times 6 to see how many degrees.
Now you tell me the final answer.

nincompoop · Answer

a good but may be a lot of work is to convert everything into seconds
solve the problem then convert it back to minutes