Question

What is the marked angle made by the hour and minute hands of the clock given below?

Answer 1

The angle between any two consecutive numbers on the clock is $\frac{360}{12}={30}^{\circ }.$

There are nine ${30}^{\circ }$ angles in the given angle as shown below:


$\therefore$ The angle made by the hands of the clock is $9\times {30}^{\circ }={270}^{\circ }.$