<PRE><B>Question 1189837</B>
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Given info:&lt;table border = &quot;1&quot; cellpadding = &quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Person&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;They &lt;u&gt;think&lt;/u&gt; their clock is...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Their clock is actually...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Alice&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;8 minutes fast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3 minutes slow&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Barney&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;9 minutes slow&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6 minutes fast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Clive&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3 minutes fast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4 minutes slow&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Dolores&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3 minutes slow&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;22 minutes fast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Elisha&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7 minutes fast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7 minutes slow&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Let&#39;s say hypothetically that when each person is setting their watch, the official time is 3:00 PM.


Now let&#39;s consider Alice. Her clock is actually 3 minutes slow. Her clock displays 2:57 PM (which is 3 minutes shy of 3:00 PM). Alice thinks her clock is 8 minutes fast. 
To counterbalance things, she&#39;ll subtract 8 minutes from the clock&#39;s display to get 2:49 PM.
Alice sets her watch to 2:49 PM when the true time is 3:00 PM.


Notice the gap from 2:49 (what Alice thinks the time should be) and 3:00 (what the time is officially) is exactly 11 minutes.
Furthermore, notice that 3+8 = 11. 


In other words, Alice clock is 3 min slow and she mistakenly slows it down another 8 min to have it be 11 min slow overall.


Barney has his clock 6 minutes fast and he thinks its 9 minutes slow. Therefore, he&#39;ll add 9 to the time on his clock to be 6+9 = 15 minutes fast.


The other clocks are adjusted in a similar fashion


After such adjustments, we have this&lt;table border = &quot;1&quot; cellpadding = &quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Person&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;His or her watch is...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Alice&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;11 minutes slow&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Barney&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;15 minutes fast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Clive&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7 minutes slow&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Dolores&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;25 minutes fast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color=red&gt;Elisha&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color=red&gt;14 minutes slow&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;The person with the slowest watch will arrive at the restaurant last. That table shows that &lt;font color=red&gt;Elisha&lt;/font&gt; is the unfortunate one to draw the shortest straw here.


If you&#39;re curious about each person&#39;s arrival time (the true time, not what their watch says), then we would have this&lt;table border = &quot;1&quot; cellpadding = &quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Person&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;When they *actually* arrive at the restaurant&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Notes&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Alice&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6:11 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;11 minutes after the true time of 6:00 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Barney&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5:45 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;15 minutes before the true time of 6:00 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Clive&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6:07 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7 minutes after the true time of 6:00 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Dolores&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5:35 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;25 minutes before the true time of 6:00 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color=red&gt;Elisha&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font color=red&gt;6:14 PM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14 minutes after the true time of 6:00 PM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;This table helps further show that &lt;font color=red&gt;Elisha&lt;/font&gt; is the last to arrive.


Answer:&lt;font color=red&gt; E) Elisha&lt;/font&gt;

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