December 23rd: time for maths

Welcome to Day 23 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a set of Christmas maths problems for you.  They’re quite tricky: perhaps the whole family could compete to complete them correctly!

Advent Calendar - day 23 - Better Tuition

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Today is Monday, 23rd December 2014.  The current time is 10:03.  The start of December 2014 was at 00:00 on December 1st.  Answer the following questions based on this information.

1.  How many hours and minutes have there been in December 2014 so far?

2.  How many Tuesdays have there been in December 2014 so far?

3.  How many minutes are there until Christmas Day (00:00 on December 25th)?

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Answers:

1.  562 hours and three minutes
2.  3
3.  27 hours and 57 minutes

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