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Two children are at opposite ends of an iron pipe. One strikes his end of the iron pipe with a stone. Find the ratio of times taken by the sound wave in air and in iron to reach the other child. Given, velocity of sound in air is 344 ms −1 and that in iron is `5130 ms ^-1`.

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