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Hamish is studying what happens when he sends a sound wave through different mediums, and he records his data in a table.

A 2-column table with 4 rows titled Hamish's Waves. The first column labeled Wave has entries 1, 2, 3, 4. The second column labeled Information has entries liquid, solid, gas, liquid.
Which statement could be made about the data collected in Hamish’s table?

Wave 1 will move the fastest.
Wave 2 will move the slowest.
Wave 3 will move the slowest.
Wave 4 will move the fastest.

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Wave 3 will move the slowest.

Sound travels fastest in solids, slower in liquids, and slowest in gases, so the wave in the gas (Wave 3) will be slowest.