CRE 2 - Faulty Clock | LR - Clocks
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A faulty clock is set right at 1 p.m.. If it gains one minute an hour, what time will it show at 6 p.m. the same day.
- (a)
6 p.m.
- (b)
6:05 p.m.
- (c)
5:55 p.m.
- (d)
None of these
Answer: Option B
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A watch gains time uniformly was observed to be 2 min slow at 6:00 a.m. on a day. On the same day at 8:00 p.m. the watch was 2 min. fast. When did the watch show the correct time?
- (a)
3 p.m.
- (b)
12 noon
- (c)
1 p.m.
- (d)
12:30 p.m.
Answer: Option C
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A watch which gains uniformly, is 2 minutes slow, at noon on Tuesday and is 4 minutes 48 seconds fast at 2 p.m. on the following Tuesday. When was it correct?
- (a)
2 p.m. on Wednesday
- (b)
2 p.m. on Friday
- (c)
2 p.m. on Tuesday
- (d)
2 p.m. on Thursday
Answer: Option D
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A watch which gains 5 seconds in 3 minutes was set right at 7 a.m. In the afternoon of the same day, when the watch indicated quarter past 4 O'clock, the true time is :
- (a)
minutes past 3
- (b)
4 p.m.
- (c)
minutes past 4
- (d)
minutes past 5
Answer: Option B
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A clock is set right at 1 p.m. if it gains one minute an hour, what is the true time when the clock indicates 6 p.m. the same day.
- (a)
min past 4 p.m.
- (b)
min past 5 p.m.
- (c)
min past 4 p.m.
- (d)
None of these
Answer: Option B
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A clock is set right at 5 a.m. The clock loses 16 minutes in 24 hours. What will be the true time when the clock indicates 10 p.m. on the 4th day?
- (a)
10 p.m.
- (b)
11 p.m.
- (c)
9 p.m.
- (d)
8 p.m.
Answer: Option B
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A clock is set right at 7 a.m. on Monday. The clock gains 10 minutes in every 24 hours. What will be the true time when the clock indicates 5 p.m. on the following Wednesday?
- (a)
4:40 p.m.
- (b)
4:30 p.m.
- (c)
4:36 p.m.
- (d)
4:46 p.m.
Answer: Option C
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How much does a watch gain or lose per day, if its hands coincide every 64 minutes?
- (a)
loses 96 minutes
- (b)
loses 90 minutes
- (c)
gains minutes
- (d)
gains minutes
Answer: Option D
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One evening, Aakash goes out for a drive, sometime between 4 O'clock and 5 O’clock. When he gets back, sometime between 7 O’clock and 8 O’clock, he noticed that the minute and hour hands have interchanged their positions exactly with what they were when he started out. Approximately how long was his drive?
- (a)
2 hours 15 mins
- (b)
1 hour 12 mins
- (c)
2 hours
- (d)
2 hours 46 mins
Answer: Option D
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There are two clocks on a wall, both set to show the correct time at 6 a.m. The faster clock gains 1 minute every hour while the slower clock looses 2 minutes every hour. If the faster clock shows the time as 12 minutes past 6 p.m. on the same day, then what time does the other watch show?
- (a)
5:48 p.m.
- (b)
6 p.m.
- (c)
6:05 p.m.
- (d)
5:36 p.m.
- (e)
None of these
Answer: Option D
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A watch, which gains uniformly, was observed to be 15 minutes slow at 12 noon on 10th March. It was noticed 25 minutes fast at 8 p.m., 18th March. When did the watch show the correct time?
- (a)
3 pm on 13th March
- (b)
11 pm on 12th March
- (c)
1 am on 13th March
- (d)
1 pm on 14th March
- (e)
None of these
Answer: Option A
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