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Calendars
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What is the astronomical
significance of 1 year?
Time taken for one revolution
around the sun
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How many days for one
revolution around the
sun?
365 - in an ordinary year
366 - in a leap year
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What is a leap year?
All years divisible by 4
Except those by 100, e.g. 1900
Including those by 400 e.g.
2000
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The 13th of December
2004 is a Monday. What
will be the day on 13th of
December 2005?
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2005 has 365 days
i.e 52 weeks and 1 days
So one year later the day will
be Tuesday
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The definition of an odd
day
This additional day is called an
odd day
How many odd days does a
leap year have?
2
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How many odd days does
a century have?
24 leap years and 76 non-leap
years
24 x 2 + 76 x 1 = 124 odd days
i.e. remainder of 124/7 = 5
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If today is Sunday, what
will be the day 100 years
from now?
100 years later the day will be a
Friday
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How many odd days are
there in 200 years?
5 odd days in a 100 years.
So 10 odd days in 200 years.
Odd days can never be greater
than 7
Odd days = 3
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How many odd days are
there in 300 years?
5 odd days in a 100 years.
3 odd days in 200 years
So 1 odd days in 300
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How many odd days are
there in 400 years?
1 odd days in 300
5 + 1 odd day in last 100 years
So total = 7 or 0 odd days
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What was the day on the
10th of May 1999?
1600 years there will be 0 odd
days
300 years after that, there will
be 1 odd day
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98 years, 4 months and 10
days
122 odd days, net odd days = 3
4 months and 10 days of 1999,
days elapsed = 130
So net odd days = 4
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Total odd days = 1 + 3 + 4 = 8
Net odd days = 1
So the day was Monday
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Clocks
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How many minute spaces
in the circumference of a
dial?
60
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What is the relative speed
of the minute hand over
the hour hand?
55 min spaces/ hour
Or 11/12 min spaces/ min
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At what time between 4
and 5 are the minute and
hour hand together?
Relative dist of 20 min spaces
Time required = 20 / (11/12) =
240 / 11 or 21
9
/
11
minutes
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Relative Distance of 5 minutes
Time reqd = 5 / ( 11/12) =
5 + 5/11 minutes.
At what time between 4
and 5 are the minute and
hour hand be at right
angles?
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Also at relative distance of
35 minutes
Time required for this is
35/ ( 11/12) = 38 +
2
/
11
minutes.
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A clock is set right at 8
AM. The clock gains 10
minutes in 24 hours. What
will be the true time when
the clock indicates 1 PM
on the next day?
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Time from 8 am to 1 PM on the
following day is 29 hrs.
Now, 24 hrs 10 min of this clock
= 24 hours of correct clock.
So 29 hours of this clock is
29*24/2410 = 28 hrs 48 min.
So the time is 12 minutes
before 1 PM.
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A watch gains uniformly. It
was observed that it was
5 min slow at 12 oclock in
the night on Sunday. On
Thursday at 6 PM it was 5
min 48 second fast. When
was it correct?
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The time between 12 Oclock
on Sunday night and 6 PM on
Thursday = 90 hours.
Now the watch gains 5 +
29
/
5

= 54/5 minutes in 90 hours.
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So the watch gains 5 minutes in
90 x 5 x 5 / 54 = 125 / 3 hours
= 41 hours 40 minutes.
Thus, the watch is correct at 5:
40 on Monday.
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To conclude
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Odd days in
1 year? 1
100 years? 5
200 years? 3
400 years? 0
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What is the relative speed
of the min hand over the
hour hand?
55 min spaces / hour
Or
11
/
12
min spaces / min