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Which statement correctly compares sound and light waves?

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Light travels as transverse waves and can go through the vacuum of space, while sound has longitude waves and needs to travel through something solid. It can’t travel through a vacuum of space like light.
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Sound waves carry energy parallel to the motion of the wave, while light waves carry energy perpendicular to it.

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