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A fairground ride spins its occupants inside a flying saucer-shaped container. If the horizontal circular path the riders follow has a 4.8 m diameter, if the riders is subjected to a centripetal acceleration 1.3 times that due to gravity, what is the spinning speed in unit of revolutions per minute? Use g = 9.8 m/s2.
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