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22.5 degrees.

The hour hand moves 30 degrees each hour (360/12), if 3/4 of an hour has passed the hand has moved 22.5 from 9. the minute hand is on the 9.

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^^^^^^Why over-complicate it? You dont get more points.

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praveenchaudharyy
Oreos^^^^^^Why over-complicate it? You dont get more points.

Please calculate the angle between hour hand and second hands at 9:37:23 using your approach smartass : )

Correct me if I'm wrong but that wasn't the question, and so you're saying you apply the same arbitrary formula to every question regardless of complexity? Good luck with that.

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praveenchaudharyy
Oreos^^^^^^Why over-complicate it? You dont get more points.

Please calculate the angle between hour hand and second hands at 9:37:23 using your approach smartass : )

Correct me if I'm wrong but that wasn't the question, and so you're saying you apply the same arbitrary formula to every question regardless of complexity? Good luck with that.

I say that knowing concept is important and not just the solution.A right approach with sound concepts is always better than shortcut to solution.

 
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Oreos
praveenchaudharyy
Oreos^^^^^^Why over-complicate it? You dont get more points.

Please calculate the angle between hour hand and second hands at 9:37:23 using your approach smartass : )

Correct me if I'm wrong but that wasn't the question, and so you're saying you apply the same arbitrary formula to every question regardless of complexity? Good luck with that.

I say that knowing concept is important and not just the solution.A right approach with sound concepts is always better than shortcut to solution.

I agree, it's better to know how to calculate the problem from a nuts and bolts approach rather than, as the first poster did, memorize the answer from another similar problem. But throughout you've assumed I didn't use a method similar to yours, I may have just chosen to condense it into it's simplest easiest form.

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I think this is the formula we can use to calculate the angle

Let X be Hours Y be Mins.

ANGLE = 30X - (11/2)Y For 9:45 angle

309 - (11/2)45 = 270-247.5 Angle= 22.5 degrees.

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