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Johnny was playing baseball with his friends and they noticed a bolt of lightning. They heard thunder seven seconds later. How far away is the storm?
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Johnny was playing baseball with his friends and they noticed a bolt of lightning. They heard thunder seven seconds later. How far away is the storm?

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the storm would be at least 7 miles away cause light travels faster than sound and you can tell how many miles away a lightning bolt might have hit by how long it takes the thunder to strike
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