document.write( "Question 1182848: A clockmaker makes a 12-hour clock but with the hour and minute hands identical. An ambiguous time on this clock is one where you cannot tell what time it is, since the exact position of the two hands occurs twice in a 12-hour cycle.
\n" ); document.write( "For instance, the clock can show 7:23 pm and 4:37 pm so both of these times are ambiguous.
\n" ); document.write( "However, 12:00pm is not ambiguous, since both hands are together.
\n" ); document.write( "How many ambiguous times happen in the 12 hours from midday to midnight? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #812964 by Boreal(15235) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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There would be 11 of them, one after each hour, and the eleventh would occur at midnight. \n" ); document.write( "

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