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The minute hand of a clock points directly at the 11. What number will the minute hand point at after 5,555 minutes?
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document.write( "The minute hand takes 5 minutes to point to the next number, so\r\n" );
document.write( "we divide\r\n" );
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document.write( "  1111\r\n" );
document.write( "5)5555\r\n" );
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document.write( "So it has pointed to a new number exactly 1111 times in those 5555 minutes.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now every time it has pointed to 12 new numbers it has made a complete\r\n" );
document.write( "revolution.  So we divide again, this time by 12: \r\n" );
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document.write( "     92\r\n" );
document.write( "12)1111\r\n" );
document.write( "   108\r\n" );
document.write( "     31\r\n" );
document.write( "     24\r\n" );
document.write( "      7\r\n" );
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document.write( "So it has made 92 complete revolutions and ended up with\r\n" );
document.write( "a remainder of 7 more numbers than those 92 complete\r\n" );
document.write( "revolutions from where it started, and so it has ended up 7 \r\n" );
document.write( "numbers past pointing to the 11, and that makes it point to the \r\n" );
document.write( "number 6.\r\n" );
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