SOLUTION: How many minutes past 11a.m. is it, if two hours ago it was three times as many minutes past 8 a.m.?

Question 350544: How many minutes past 11a.m. is it, if two hours ago it was three times as many minutes past 8 a.m.?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 8:00 AM be and count all time in minutes.
11:00 would be ().
Let's say the time now is minutes after 11:00 AM or .
Two hours ago it was .
Two hours ago it was also , "three times as many minutes past 8 a.m."
So then,

It's now 11:30 AM.
Two hours ago it was 9:30 AM or 90 minutes after 8:00 AM.

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