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While driving in an exotic foreign land, you see a speed limit sign that reads 180,000 furlongs per fortnight. How many miles per hour is this? (One furlong is 1 8 mile, and a fortnight is 14 days. A furlong originally referred to the length of a plowed furrow.)

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QUESTION:

While driving in an exotic foreign land, you see a speed limit sign that reads 180,000 furlongs per fortnight. How many miles per hour is this? (One furlong is 1 8 mile, and a fortnight is 14 days. A furlong originally referred to the length of a plowed furrow.)

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The distance in miles is converted as,

                                                                 

The time is converted to hours from fortnight as,

                                                                   

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