A tornado siren begins blaring from the center of town 9.5 seconds after a tornado was spotted. The siren is located 490 meters north of a school. If the siren’s sound wave travels at a constant velocity of 350 meters per second south, how long will it take the sound wave to travel from the siren to the school?

Respuesta :

The relationship between distance, time and velocity is:

[tex]v=\frac{d}{t}[/tex]

The question ask us for the time, we can solve for t:

[tex]v=\frac{d}{t}\Rightarrow t=\frac{d}{v}[/tex]

To find the time that it will take the sound wave travelling at 350 m/s to reach the school at 490m is the distance divided the velocity:

[tex]\begin{gathered} t=\frac{490m}{350\frac{m}{s}} \\ \end{gathered}[/tex][tex]t=1.4s[/tex]

The answer is 1.4s