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Question
Sakharam was ploughing the field from 8 in the morning. At 12:30 in the afternoon, he stopped and started for home. He reached home at 1:30. How long was he ploughing the field? How long did it take him to reach home from the field?
Solution
| Hours | Minutes | |
| 1 2 | 3 0 | Stopped ploughing |
| - 8 | 0 0 | Started ploughing |
| 4 | 3 0 | Hours ploughed |
| Hours | Minutes | |
| 1 3 | 3 0 | Time in 24 hours clock for 1:30 = 13:30 |
| - 1 2 | 3 0 | 1 hour is the time taken to reach home |
| 0 1 | 0 0 |
∴ He ploughed for 4:30 hrs. He took 1 hour to reach home.
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