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1988 AHSME Problem 7

Estimate the time it takes to send 60 blocks of data over a communications channel if each block consists of 512 "chunks" and the channel can transmit 120 chunks per second.

\textbf{(A)}\ 0.04 \text{ seconds}\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 0.4 \text{ seconds}\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 4 \text{ seconds}\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 4\text{ minutes}\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 4\text{ hours}


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