Question

The hour hand of a clock moves from the number 6 to the number 10. What is the degree measure and direction of the rotation

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} \text{Deg measure is 120} \\ \text{Direction of rotation is anti-clockwise} \end{gathered}`

Here, we want to calculate the degree measure and the direction of rotation

As we can see, a full clock has a measure of 12 hands, so that is a total of 360 degrees

That means for each of the hour, we have a degree of 30

From 6 to 10, we can see a movement of 4 times

That means we have a movement of 4 multiplied by 30 degrees and that gives 120 degrees

Secondly, we want to get the directionof the rotation

The direction of the rotation is against the normal clock-hand movement

So we have this movement type as anti-clockwise rotation