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A cruise ship can cover 17 nautical miles in 374 minutes. How many nautical miles will it travel in 330 minutes?

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374/17= 22 minutes per nautical mile.
330/22= 15 nautical miles in 10 minutes

To check your work:
17/374=.04545 nautical miles per minute
.04545*330= 14.999 or 15.

So your answer is that the cruise ship covered 15 nautical miles in 330 minutes. I hope that helped!

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