Question

Shivam puts his wall clock on a table in such a way that at 9 A.M., the hour hand was pointing south. In which direction will the minute hand point at 9:30PM?

Answer 1

Hint: This problem is based on direction and timings. We need to first imagine or rather draw the clock and set the direction according to the given data. Then we will go for the second condition given and we will find out exactly in which direction the minute hand will be.

Complete step by step solution:
Given the information is that Shivam puts his wall clock on a table in such a way that at 9 A.M., the hour hand was pointing south.
This statement clears that the time was 9AM and the hour hand was pointing south.
This clears that exactly the opposite direction that is number 3 will note the north direction.
And 12 and 6 will represent west and east directions respectively.
Let's picture this as a clock.

The thick needle (hour hand) at 9AM is pointing south and the other directions as specified.
Now after some time another condition is mentioned in the question. That we have to find the direction in which thin needle (minute hand) is pointing at 9:30PM
So we will first show the time in the clock itself.

Now the minute hand will be at the position that shows 30 minutes in the clock that is at 6. And as we specified 6 represents the east direction.
Thus at 9:30PM a minute hand is in the east direction.
So, the correct answer is “east”.

Note: We have to note two main things in the problem and that are the clockwise and anticlockwise positions of directions does not change, that is south and north are opposite to each other whereas east and west are opposite to each other.
Also whether it is Am or PM 30 minutes are always shown by minute hand on 6 only.
Note that this problem totally needs the basic knowledge of four main directions and clock reading.