A physicist at a fireworks display times the lag between seeing an explosion and hearing its sound, and finds it to be 0.800 s.

(a) How far away(m) is the explosion if air temperature is 22.0°C, neglecting the time taken for light to reach the physicist?

(b) How much further away(m) would the explosion be calculated to be if the speed of light is taken into account?

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