Question

A football match finished at 1:10 p.m. If the match is being played for 90 minutes, at what time did the match start?

Answer 1

Hint: Count back the number of minutes given from the time given to find when the football match started. The question has not mentioned a break between half time, hence don’t consider the break time. Use the conversion of 1 hr = 60 minute to count back the minutes from the given time.

Complete step by step solution:
The time of the football match when it ends is 1:10 p.m. and the football match is played for 90 minutes. Also, don’t consider the break between half time. Count back the number of minutes to find when the match has started.
First if you take away the 10 minutes out of 90 minutes from 1:10 p.m. you will get 1p.m.
We know that, 1 hour = 60 minutes, so when you count back 60 minutes out of the remaining 80 minutes from 1 p.m., you will get 12 p.m.
Now, count back the remaining 20 minutes from 12 p.m. which will give you 11:40 a.m.

Hence it can be seen with the backward counting that the football match started at 11:40 a.m.

Note: Normally a football match has a 15 minutes break at the half time, if we considered the break, the match would have started at 11:25 a.m. Also, the units of the time changes from p.m. to a.m. before 12 p.m. which is also known as 12 noon. P.M means Post Meridiem (or) post midday and A.M. means Ante Meridiem (or) before midday. You can also convert the 90 minutes to 1.5 hours and if you minus 1.5 hours from the time given 1:10 p.m. you will get 11:40 a.m.