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The distance between a compression and the next rarefaction of a sound wave is 12.5 cm. If the sound waves can travel 750 m in 3s, then find the number of waves produced in one second

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(i) Time taken to produce one wave = (wavelength) (distance covered in one second)
(ii) 1000
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