While driving in an exotic foreign land you see a speed limit sign on a highway 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.) * 47 mi/hr 57 mi/hr 67 mi/hr 87 mi/hr

While driving in an exotic foreign land you see a speed limit sign on a highway 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.) * 47 mi/hr 57 mi/hr 67 mi/hr 87 mi/hr

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While driving in an exotic foreign
land you see a speed limit sign on
a highway 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.) *
47 mi/hr
57 mi/hr
67 mi/hr
O 87 mi/hr

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