If you see a lightning stroke and then, 15 seconds later, hear the thunder, the lightning is about miles away

3.2 miles

Explanation:

We can assume that the light coming from the lightning reach instantaneously our eyes (because light travels very fast, ), so the time between the lightining and the hearing of the thunder is equal to the time that sound takes to each us.

Sound travels in air approximately at speed

v = 343 m/s

So the distance it covers in a time of t = 15 seconds is

And using the conversion from meters to miles,

1 mile = 1609 meters

we find

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