confused time

Algebra Level 2

At 't' minutes past 2 pm the time needed by minute hand of a clock to show 3 pm was found to be 3 minutes less than 't square/4' minutes. find 't'. firstly make a quadratic equation &then solve it.


The answer is 14.

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1 solution

Mohammad Nagori
Sep 21, 2015

(60-t)=(t^2/4)-3

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