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Answer: In an NBA game, each team is awarded six regular time-outs that last 100 seconds each, and two quicker “20-second” timeouts. While watching the end of the game, she heard the announcer say that one team had no time outs left because they had “just called their 20-second time out.” She mistook this to mean that team had called “its 22nd time out.”
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