A clock loses 2 minutes every single hour. If the clock is set to the correct time at midnight on Monday, what time will it show when the actual time is noon on Tuesday?
11:36 AM.
From midnight Monday to noon Tuesday is 36 hours. At a loss of 2 minutes per hour, the clock loses 72 minutes (1 hour and 12 minutes) total. Subtracting that from 12:00 PM yields 11:36 AM.
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