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A boy yells in a narrow valley. The sound reflects off of a boulder that is 80 m away. How long will it take to hear the echo if

the speed of a sound wave is 320 m/s?
(speed = distance
time )
0.25 seconds
0.50 seconds
2.0 seconds
4. lubeconds

User Nishanth
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Answer:4 lubeconds (speed=distance over time)

User Thiago Mata
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Answer:

Time taken, t = 0.5 seconds

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that,

Speed of sound wave, v = 320 m/s

The sound reflects off of a boulder that is 80 m away.

Let t is the time taken to hear the echo. The distance covered by the sound to hear the echo is, 2d. So,


v=(2d)/(t)


t=(2d)/(v)


t=(2* 80\ m)/(320\ m/s)

t = 0.5 seconds

So, the time taken to hear the echo is 0.5 seconds. Hence, this is the required solution.

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