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The russian space station mir orbited around earth at a rate of 463 kilometers per minute. to the nearest whole mile, how many miles per hour was this

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The answer would be computed by this:
1 kilometer is 0.621 miles.
so plugging in our data, 463 km => 463 x 0.621 miles
In other words, 287.523 miles per minute
Therefore, 287.523 x 60 miles per hour
=> 17,251 m.p.h. would be the answer for this problem.
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