Tick’s watch runs 2 minutes per hour too slow. Tock’s watch runs 1 minute per hour too fast. They set them to the same time at noon on Sunday. The next time they met, one of the watches was one hour ahead of the other. What was the earliest time this could have been?
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8am on Monday
7:20 pm on Monday
4am on Tuesday
midnight on Wednesday
10 pm on Saturday
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