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A hospital uses an ultrasonic scanner to locate tumours in a tissue. The operating freqency of the scanner is 3.2 MHz. The speed of sound in a tissue is 1.6 km `s^(-1)`. The wavelength of sound in the tissue is

A

`4xx10^(-4)m`

B

`8xx10^(-3)m`

C

`4xx10^(-3)m`

D

`8xx10^(-4)m`

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