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: t = 12/7 = 1.714 hours or 1 hour 42 minutes and 51.42857 seconds.
: is this going to get us an honorable mention in the San Jose Mercury News?

No, Isaac said the answer was 1 hr 45.  I also thought that answer was
funny because with sevenths, you should not get a nice even time like that.

So I had to compute it to see how far off it was.  But 42 is close.  :-)
I guess we should ask for a correction?  :-)

(I did that recently when they said a body was found around here in poison
ivy.  And said it again on another day.)

These rate problems remind me of the high school math contests I use to
go to.  I still remember word problems dealing with "jobbers".

In fact, I won San Jose Mercury News' math contest that year.

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