An old clock started to fall behind by one minute each day. It was too fragile to fix, but too beloved to stop. How slow was the clock after one year of this?

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16 May, 04:34

An old clock started to fall behind by one minute each day. It was too fragile to fix, but too beloved to stop. How slow was the clock after one year of this?

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Cullen Erickson · Answer 1

There are 365 days in a year and it off by one minute a day. So it is about 6 hours and 8 minutes because it is 365 minutes off, there 60 minutes in an hour. So 365:60=6.083 so it's about 6 hours and 8 minutes.