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Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

In 1866, the yacht Henrietta – with Gordon Bennett aboard – won the Great Ocean Yacht Race, travelling a distance of approximately 3000 nautical miles. The winning time was 13 days and 22 hours, to the nearest hour. What was the yacht's average speed in nautical miles per hour, to the nearest integer?

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