If sound travels approximately 1 km in 3 s, and the lightning is striking 10 km from your house, how much time passes between a flash of lightning and the sound of thunder?

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Xuso · Answer 1 · 2019-09-14T03:21:51+0000

If the lightning is 10 km and the sound takes 3 seconds to travel 1 km, then the sound takes 30 seconds to travel 10 km.

3 seconds * 10 kilometers = 30 seconds

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