What is the time difference between each degree of longitude?

What is the time difference between each degree of longitude?

  • (a) 2 minutes
  • (b) 11 minutes
  • (c) 4 minutes
  • (d) 8 minutes
  • - The Earth makes a 360-degree circle, and it makes a complete rotation in 24 hours, which is equal to 1440 minutes.
  • - To find the time shift for each degree, divide the total minutes by the number of degrees, which is 360. So, the time shift for each degree is 1440/360 = 4 minutes.
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