SOLUTION: Please provide an easy-to-understand explanation.
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My watch gains ten seconds an hour, and my clock loses ten seconds an hour. I put them both right at noon on June 1
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My watch gains ten seconds an hour, and my clock loses ten seconds an hour. I put them both right at noon on June 1
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My watch gains ten seconds an hour, and my clock loses ten seconds an hour. I put them both right at noon on June 1st. What next later date will they also tell the same time?
After 1 hour the difference in readings will be 20 seconds;
2 hours ---------------- " ----------- 40 seconds
and so on . . . . . . . .
The clock and the watch will show the same time when 20-seconds increments will fill the 12-hour period,
i.e. after = 12*180 = 2160 hours = = 90 days.
ANSWER. At noon of August, 29.
