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While navigating in fog off a coastline of steep cliffs, you hear the echo of the ship's fog horn 3 seconds after the signal was sounded. What is the distance to the shore?

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Question 1 of 31048

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While navigating in fog off a coastline of steep cliffs, you hear the echo of the ship's fog horn 3 seconds after the signal was sounded. What is the distance to the shore?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Speed of sound in air and using a reasonable standard value in feet per second • Sound has to travel to the cliff and back (round trip), not just one way • Convert feet to yards at the end of the calculation

💭 Think About

• How far does sound travel in 3 seconds using a standard speed of sound in air? Is that total distance one-way or round-trip? • Once you have the one-way distance in feet, what simple division converts that distance to yards? • After converting to yards, which of the choices is closest to your computed value?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be sure to divide the total travel distance by 2 to get the one-way distance to the shore • Use a consistent unit system (don’t mix meters and feet in the same calculation) • Confirm you convert feet to yards correctly by dividing by 3 before comparing with the answer choices