Your town is at sea level, and it is a comfortable room-

temperature day. The speed of sound in air at this temperature

is about 343 m/s. If a siren from the firehouse takes 0.200

seconds to arrive at your school, how far is your school from

the firehouse? _meters

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Asa Rivas

Chemistry

28 January, 14:18

Your town is at sea level, and it is a comfortable room-

temperature day. The speed of sound in air at this temperature

is about 343 m/s. If a siren from the firehouse takes 0.200

seconds to arrive at your school, how far is your school from

the firehouse? _meters

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Anderson · Answer 1

68.6 m

Explanation:

Speed is defined as distance covered per unit time and expressed as

S=d/t

Where d is distance and t is speed.

Making d the subject of the above formula then

d=st

Substituting 343 m/s dor s and 0.200 s for s then

d=343*0.2=68.6 m

Therefore, the distance is 68.6 m

Your town is at sea level, and it is a comfortable room-temperature day. The speed of sound in air at this temperatureis about 343 m/s. If a siren from the firehouse takes 0.200seconds to arrive at your school, how far is your school fromthe firehouse? _meters

Your town is at sea level, and it is a comfortable room-

temperature day. The speed of sound in air at this temperature

is about 343 m/s. If a siren from the firehouse takes 0.200

seconds to arrive at your school, how far is your school from

the firehouse? _meters