SOLUTION: What is the angle formed between the hour hand and the minute hand when the clock face shows quarter past one?

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Question 894365: What is the angle formed between the hour hand and the minute hand when the clock face shows
quarter past one?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Quarter past one, the hour hand is on the 1, the minute hand is on the 3.
There are 12 major subdivisions for each 12 hour period.
Each subdivision is degrees.
Since there are two subdivisions between 1 and 3,

degrees

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