62.--THE CLUB CLOCK.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

The positions of the hands shown in the illustration could only indicate that the clock stopped at 44 min. 51+1143/1427 sec. after eleven o'clock. The second hand would next be "exactly midway between the other two hands" at 45 min. 52+496/1427 sec. after eleven o'clock. If we had been dealing with the points on the circle to which the three hands are directed, the answer would be 45 min. 22+106/1427 sec. after eleven; but the question applied to the hands, and the second hand would not be between the others at that time, but outside them.

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