Answer:
a) 12:45 am
b) 7:30 pm
c) 20:15
d) 0:00
Step-by-step explanation:
a) We know that the 24-hour clock has no "am" or "pm" because in a day, there are 24 hours, so "pm" would simply be more than 12 hours.
The 12th hour marks noon, which is "12:00 pm" in 12-hour times. Anything after that would start from 1 and would be marked with a pm.
So 12:45 in 12-hour format would be 12:45 pm because it's passed the noon-mark, which is the 12th hour. Anything after noon would be marked with a "pm."
b) Same thing here: 19:30 has also passed the noon mark, the 12th hour. It would be marked with a "pm."
But there is no "19 'o clock" in 12-hour format (hence the 12-hour 12 hours). So to find that, we know that it has already passed noon. We can subtract to find how many hours it has passed noon:
19 - 12 = 7
So it's the 7th hour.
So it would be 7:30 pm.
c) Because there is no "am" or "pm" in the 24-hour clock, we have to see how many hours past noon it has been.
8:15 pm means it has passed noon by 8 hours and 15 minutes. So we add this to the noon mark (first 12 hours of the day).
12 + 8 = 20
This is our hours. We can attach it to the minutes: 20:15.
d) Midnight in 12-hour terms would be 12:00 am. It would be officially the next day, and it's a reset button.
If it were Saturday today, and it's 11:59 pm, it's still Saturday. But once that clock turns 12:00 pm, it's Sunday.
This means that no time has passed during Sunday yet—it just reset.
So it would be 0:00 because no time has passed officially on Sunday yet.
