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Two race cars are traveling at different speeds. The blue car travels 8 laps in 320 seconds. The red car travels 12 laps in 456 seconds. For practice, the two cars decide to race 5 laps. If both cars continue to travel at their current rates of speed, the winner will finish ____ seconds ahead of the other.

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Find a unit rate (how long it takes per lap) and then multiply it by 5 for each car to find out how long each car takes to practice 5 laps.

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