At a fireworks display at a shopping mall, a shopper noticed that the sound of an exploding shell arrived 0.20 s after the flash from the explosion. If the speed of sound is 345 m/s, how far away from the person was the explosion?

At a fireworks display at a shopping mall, a shopper noticed that the sound of an exploding shell arrived 0.20 s after the flash from the explosion. If the speed of sound is 345 m/s, how far away from the person was the explosion?

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