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6.) If it's midnight in North America and the Earth has rotated 180, then how many hours have passed?

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Answer: 12 hours (noon)

Explanation:

**For simplicity's sake, we'll use military time (Zulu time).**

- It is 00:00 in North America.

- If one full rotation means a day has passed, or more specifically, that 24 hours have passed, then that means the Earth has rotated 360°.

- So if 360° = 24 hrs, then 180°, being 360/2, or half a rotation, will be 24/2 hrs, or 12 hours.

- So the time is now 12:00, or noon.

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