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It was 2:15 on Annie’s watch when she left her house to go to the library. While
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document.write( "She set her watch from 2:40 to 2:49, which means she set it forward by 9 minutes.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Had she not set her watch 9 minutes forward, she would have left home when her\r\n" );
document.write( "watch read 2:15 and gotten home when her watch read 3:00, and therefore she was\r\n" );
document.write( "away from home 45 minutes. \r\n" );
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