Karen shouts across a canyon and hears an echo 7.5 s later. how wide is the canyon? the speed of sound is 343 m/s. answer in units of m.

After Karen shouts, the sound wave of her voice travels across the canyon, it hits the walls, and then it comes back to Karen in a total time of t=7.5 s. If we call L the distance between Karen and the other side of the canyon (so, L is the width of the canyon), it means that the sound wave covers a distance of S=2L in this time.
Since the wave moves by uniform motion, we can use the usual relationship between space, time and velocity:

where v=343 m/s is the speed of sound. Using this number, we can find L from the previous equation:

So, the canyon is 1286 meters wide.

Iread this book last year so take this with a grain of salt.gene jumps from the tree to compete with finny due to the fact that gene is always trying to do better than finny. he is put under the grasp of peer pressure due to finny almost forcing him to do this. ever since he first jumped finny kept pressuring him to jump since he thought gene enjoyed jumping.rather than uses this answer you should probably just reread chapters 3-4