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Question 1081355: Have a great day madams and sirs:
I need your help for this problem. Kindly answer. WHAT IS THE GENERAL FORMULA IN DETERMINING HOW MANY TIMES THE MINUTE HAND AND THE SECOND HAND OF THE CLOCK MEET TOGETHER AT ANY GIVEN TIME?
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Starting from 12:00 at noon (or midnight), the minute hang and the hour hand are in the same position after every 1 hour 5 minutes and 27 seconds
(approximately).

This time interval is exactly 12%2F11 of an hour.

See the lesson Clock problems in this site.