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Time to 5 minutes
A clock has two hands. The short hand points to the hour, the long hand shows the minutes.
How to do it
- Find the short hand: the number it has passed is the hour.
- Find the long hand: straight up is o'clock, straight down is half past.
- Each number the long hand passes is 5 minutes.
Worked example
What time is it?
The short hand is just past 7; the long hand points at 4: count 5, 10, 15, 20
20 past 7 (7:20)
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Watch outThe short hand moves slowly between numbers: it is the number it has already passed.
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