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sound caused by an explosion on the oceans surface travels vertically downward to an underwater mountain and is reflected back to a microphone at the surface. if this takes 11.6 s to occur and the sound travels 1450 m/s in water what is the depth to this mountain

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The depth to this underwater mountain is 8410 m.

What is an echo?

An echo is the sound heard after the reflection of the initial sound from a reflecting surface.

The echo time or the time taken for an echo to be heard is used to calculate the distance from the reflecting surface.

The Distance is of a place from the time taken to hear an echo is calculated as follows:

Distance = Speed * Time/2

Distance = 1450 * 11.6/2

Distance = 8410 m

Therefore, the depth to this underwater mountain is 8410 m.

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