BGonline.org Forums

are we on the clock answering this?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 7:22 p.m.

In Response To: are we on the clock answering this? (Timothy Chow)

By the way, these puzzles are very old...

I recall seeing #1 in the (high school) National Math Competition forty or more years ago. And, as you surmise, it probably existed LONG before that.

Messages In This Thread

• OT Analog clock math problems
  Jason Lee -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:57 p.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:11 a.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      Sam Pottle -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:24 a.m.
      • OT Analog clock math problems
        Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:26 a.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:14 a.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:20 a.m.
      • OT Analog clock math problems
        Sam Pottle -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:25 a.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:34 a.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:19 a.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    joe freedman -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:22 a.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      joe freedman -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:34 a.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 3:41 a.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 4:59 a.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 6:26 a.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 6:31 a.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 11:17 a.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 5:22 p.m.
  • are we on the clock answering this?
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:38 p.m.
    • are we on the clock answering this?
      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 3:56 p.m.
      • are we on the clock answering this?
        Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 7:22 p.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 5:36 p.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    storm -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 6:26 p.m.
    • OT Analog clock math problems
      storm -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 6:29 p.m.
      • OT Analog clock math problems
        Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 8:47 p.m.
        • OT Analog clock math problems
          Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 2:33 a.m.
  • OT Analog clock math problems
    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 6:47 p.m.