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Problem 5 (2001 AMC 8)

AMC 8Very Easy

From module Word Problems

Problem

On a dark and stormy night Snoopy suddenly saw a flash of lightning. Ten seconds later he heard the sound of thunder. The speed of sound is 10881088 feet per second and one mile is 52805280 feet. Estimate, to the nearest half-mile, how far Snoopy was from the flash of lightning.

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