While taking a walk around your neighborhood, you see a flash of lightning hit the Earth in

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While taking a walk around your neighborhood, you see a flash of lightning hit the Earth in the distance. You immediately look at your watch and then hear thunder approximately 9 s later. 

(a) How far away did the lightning strike the ground? 

(b) Find a conversion factor for a thunder delay (measured in seconds counted) to the distance away of a corresponding lightning strike (in kilometers).

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