Ripples in a pool travel at a speed of 0.643 m/s. When someone agitates the water...

Ripples in a pool travel at a speed of 0.643 m/s. When someone agitates the water at one end you watch the ripple travel to the far end, reflect, and come back to that person in a total of 26.81 seconds. How far away is that other end of the pool?

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Find the required distance of the other end of the pool using the given speed of the ripple and the total time taken as shown below

genius_generous answered 2 years ago

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