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A clock loses 10 minutes every hour. If the clock is set to the correct time at 7 am on Sunday, when will the clock show the correct time again?

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HTET 2025 Level 1 PRT Question Paper (5-Jul-2026)
The correct answer is

Next Wednesday at 7 am

The clock loses 10 minutes every hour, so after 72 real hours it will have lost 720 minutes (12 hours), bringing it back in sync with the correct time exactly 3 days later -- from Sunday 7 am to the following Wednesday 7 am.

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