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If you drove day and night without stopping for one year without exceeding the legal highway speed limit in the United States, the maximum number of miles you could drive would be closest to:

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In order to calculate the maximum number of miles, let's use a limit speed of 70 mph and consider a year with 365 days.

Since each day has 24 hours, so the number of hours in a year is 365 * 24 = 8760 hours.

Then, multiplying this number of hours by the speed of 70 miles per hour, we have:

8760 * 70 = 613,200 miles.

Therefore the maximum number of miles you could drive is closest to 613,200 miles.

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