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The Revolutionary Rider

 * Q: During the Revolutionary War, a soldier rode his horse $13$ miles along a country route through the mountains.

How would you express this distance in kilometres if writing a modern interpretation of history?


 * A: $20.921472 \ \mathrm {km}$ because it is $1.609344 \ \mathrm {km}$ to the mile.