After a repair, this clock's hands were fitted the wrong way round: the LONG hand now shows the hour and the SHORT hand the minutes. What will the smaller angle between the hands of a correct clock be 1 h 25 min after the real time?

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92.5°. The short hand (minutes) is on 8: 40 min. The long hand (hours) is two-thirds of the way from 2 to 3: the real time is 2:40. Adding 1 h 25 min gives 4:05: hour hand 120+2.5=122.5^°, minute hand 30^°, angle 92.5^°. (61° starts from the misread time 8:13.)

After a repair, this clock's hands were fitted the wrong way round: the LONG hand now shows the hour and the SHORT hand the minutes. What will the smaller angle between the hands of a correct clock be 1 h 25 min after the real time?

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