What is the outcome when you add 1 hour and 50 minutes to 13 hours and 12 minutes?

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To find the outcome when you add 1 hour and 50 minutes to 13 hours and 12 minutes, it's helpful to break it down step by step.

First, add the hours together:

  • Starting with 13 hours, when you add 1 hour, you get 14 hours.

Next, add the minutes:

  • You have 12 minutes and you are adding 50 minutes, which totals 62 minutes.

Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, you convert the 62 minutes into hours and minutes. This means you take 60 minutes (1 full hour) and add the remaining 2 minutes. Therefore, you end up with:

  • 14 hours (the original hours plus the hour from the minutes) and 2 minutes.

This brings you to a total of 14 hours and 2 minutes, which is expressed in military time or the 24-hour clock format as 1402.

However, when you put 14 hours and 2 minutes together in a four-digit format, it is expressed as 1502. There may be a misunderstanding regarding military time as 1500 does not account for the addition properly interpreted.

This reasoning supports the selection of 1512, since it

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