Generalizing from race times reported in the text for marathon races, if the world record time for the women's half-marathon was 1 hour 20 minutes in 1900, what would you expect the world record time for women to be today for this race?
A) 1 hour 40 minutes
B) 1 hour 20 minutes
C) 1 hour 15 minutes
D) 45 minutes

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Although women did not run in the Boston Marathon in the 1890s, the winning time for women in 1972 was 3 hours 10 minutes. In 2012, merely 40 years later, the top woman finished in 2 hours 32 minutes, lopping 38 minutes off the 1972 winning time.

Generalizing from Race Times Reported in the Text for Marathon