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Convert 5280 feet to furlongs

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5,280 feet = 1 mile
1 furlong = 660 feet = 220 yards = 1/8 mile
5,280 feet = 8 furlongs

You can see how lucky we are to be able to stick with
our familiar units of measure, instead of being forced
to change to the confusing metric system.

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