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Question 16

A field team uses an ultrasound pulse-echo instrument to measure the thickness of a glacier. The instrument assumes that sound travels through the ice at 3600 m/s and displays a thickness of 24.0 m.

A borehole drilled at the same point shows that the ice is actually 25.6 m thick.

What is the actual speed of sound in this ice?

[1]
A

1920 m/s1920\ \mathrm{m/s}1920 m/s

B

3375 m/s3375\ \mathrm{m/s}3375 m/s

C

3840 m/s3840\ \mathrm{m/s}3840 m/s

D

7680 m/s7680\ \mathrm{m/s}7680 m/s

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