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title: "Quarter Turns"
description: "Learning video: Two quarter turns are 2 times 90. That is 180 degrees, and the pointer points… The pointer makes 3 quarter turns. How many degrees is that?"
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duration: "PT32S"
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# Quarter Turns

Learning video 88 · Geometry · Grade 4 · 0:32

## Read the story

A pointer points up. A quarter turn is 90 degrees.

After one quarter turn it points to the right.

Two quarter turns are 2 times 90. That is 180 degrees, and the pointer points down.

**The pointer makes 3 quarter turns. How many degrees is that?**

## Answer and working

Correct! 3 times 90 is 270 degrees. The pointer points to the left.

`3 × 90 = 270`