What time is it?

It takes the hour-hand 12 minutes to move a small division of the dial. Therefore 12 minutes later, the hour-hand will be at an hour mark and the minute-hand will be at the bottom hour mark. When the hour-hand is at an hour mark, the minute-hand must be at the 12 hour-mark. Therefore, the time is $11:00-0:12 = \boxed{10:48}$ .

The hour hand is $\frac{4}{5}$ of the way between hour marks, and since $\frac{4}{5} \cdot 60 = 48$ , that means the time is some hour and $48$ minutes.

Since the minute hand must point to $48$ , the hour mark between the given minute and hour hand must be $10$ , so it is $\boxed{10:48}$ .

THIS PICTURE WILL BE OBTAINED​ IF WE ROTATE THE GIVEN PICTURE AT 180°.

One of the easiest question on Brilliant. Use elimination and you'll get your result easily. Pay little attention on hour's hand and by intuition, answer is 10:48.

The clue is the minute hand (large one), which shows that the time must be 4/5 of an hour past the last hour. Therefore the time must be one in which the minutes are 4/5 of 60 = 48. Ed Gray

The hour hand is about to reach the next hour. Therefore, the minutes must not be less than 30. We have 10:48 and 11:53 as potential solution. But if the solution is 11:53 then the minute hand must be on the right side of the hour hand. So that reduces to 10:48.

The hour hand is 4/5 of the way to the next hour. Because 60/5=12 therefor the minutes must end in 48, or 4*12.

Hour hand is nearing an hour. This means the minute hand should be nearing the 12.

In between two hour location is divided by 4 dots. Hence five segments. 60/5 = 12. Hence every 12 min hour hand travels one segment.

Since hour hand is still to travel one more segment to reach another hour point the minute hand must be 12 min away from hour point 12. Hence hour 12 is located. From there when we calculate for current location of hour hand we find it is reaching 11.

Hence correct answer is 10:48.

solution without using the full hour indicators on dial

(1) and (2) in (3) : $\frac{360°}{12}$ (h+ $\frac{m}{60}$ ) - a - $\frac{360°}{60}$ m + a = 36°

m = (30 * h - 36) * $\frac{2}{11}$ ... must be integer -> only valid for h = 10, therefore m = 48

If minute-hand=x, and hour-hand=y x=y/12 so y=12x, when y need step 1 to next hour, the x (step 12 and) reach the 60th minute. Which at that time is 11:00. So y=11-1, and x=60-12, wich is 10:48.

A subtle thing to know about clocks is that when the minute hand is nearing twelve, the hour hand is quite close to the upcoming hour. In the above clock, the minute hand isn’t even last halfway, yet the hour hand is close to the next hour.

If you rotate and play around with the orientation of your screen, you’ll find that a 180 degree rotation of your screen (sorry if you’re on a computer) will produce a situation where the minute hand is nearing twelve and the hour hand is close to the next hour.

Read the clock and you get 10:48.

$If\ you\ look\ carefully\ you\ will\ see\ that\ there\ are\ 12\ minutes\ till\ the\ next\ hour.\ The\ only\ answer\ that\ is\ with\ 12$

$minutes\ till\ the\ next\ hour\ is\ 10:48.$

The 5:23 and 11:53 options can be ruled out by observing the relative positions of the hour and minute hands. Brief observation shows that the clock cannot be the right way up was the hour hand is far too far beyond 4 o'clock (it is almost at the next hour instead of being about a third of the way round) for it to be 4:18. Having ruled out three possibilities we are left with 10:48 being the answer - and the minute and hour hands are the in the right relative positions for that.