A newspaper headline read ‘Welsh tortoise recaptured 1.8 miles from home after 8 months on the run’. Assuming the tortoise travelled in a straight line, roughly how many minutes did the tortoise take on average to ‘run’ one foot? [1 mile = 5280 feet]
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3
9
16
36
60
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